UNFINISHED RAINBOWS And Other Essays by GEORGE WOOD ANDERSON [Illustration: Abingdon Press logo] THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI Copyright, 1922, by GEORGE WOOD ANDERSON Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS PAGE I. Unfinished Rainbows 5 II. Gathering Sunsets 12 III. Beyond the Curtained Clouds 19 IV. Tilling the Sky 26 V. Unquarried Statues 33 VI. The Ages to Come 40 VII. The Unlocked Door of Truth 47 VIII. Weaving Sunbeams 54 IX. The Pathway of a Noble Purpose 61 X. Swords for Moral Battles 68 XI. Spiced Wine 75 XII. The Fever of Health 82 XIII. The Wisdom of the Unlearned 89 XIV. The Strength of Weakness 96 XV. Crumbling Palaces 103 XVI. The Echo of Life’s Unsung Songs 110 XVII. Modern Judases 117 XVIII. The Adjustable Universe 125 XIX. Seeing Love 132 XX. The Dignity of Labor 139 XXI. Above the Commonplace of Sin 146 XXII. The Investment of a Life 154 XXIII. Thought Planting 161 XXIV. The Rosary of Tears 168 XXV. The Hearthstone of the Heart 175 XXVI. The Unoared Sea 182 I UNFINISHED RAINBOWS The rainbow was only a fragment of an arch because the needed sunshine was withheld. Had the sunlight been permitted to permeate all the atmosphere with its golden glow, the arch would have spanned the entire heavens. This is the reason why, in hours of sorrow, we do not grasp the fullness of God’s promise; we permit the denser clouds of doubt and faithlessness to keep the light of God from shining through our griefs; or, with a little faith, we get a gleam of light that gives us but a tiny fragment of the bow.