Afar off, one can hardly tell which is mountain and which is cloud. The clouds rise with peaks and summits, all apparently as solid, and certainly as glistening, as the snow-clad Alps, so that the clearest eye might readily be deceived.
So do the things of time appear to De all important, far-reaching, and enduring, and eternal things are not always of equal weight to the soul with those near at hand. Yet, despite all our instinctive judgments may suggest to the contrary, nothing earthly can ever be lasting, nothing in time can be worth considering compared to eternity.—SPURGEON.