This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... REVELATION. Once, after long weeks in the dust and heat of the city-- in the noisy strife of the crowded world-- covered daily with the grime of toil-- Once, I say, I stood in the still night upon the shore of a lake; and for a long time I watched the lurid west. And with my own eyes I saw God painting upon the sky-curtain of the softening dark; And, after a while, the...