"The Valley of Vision" from Henry Van Dyke. American author, educator, and clergyman (1852-1933).
The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of...
He chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, The Book of Common Worship of 1906. Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories The Other Wise Man (1896) and The First Christmas Tree (1897).
In Christianity there is an inner vision which never completely gives way to the outer allegory of the church. ... Its expression is to be found in the poets rather than the philosophers, in the “art” of the alchemist rather than in the ...
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