He is building for the centuries because only that which is the highest, the truest, the noblest, and best will abide the test of the centuries. He is building for eternity because when the transition we call death takes place, life, character, self-mastery, divine self-realization,--the only things that the soul when stripped of everything else takes with it,--he has in abundance. In life, or when the time of the transition to another form of life comes, he is never afraid, never fearful, because he knows and realizes that behind him, within him, beyond him, is the Infinite wisdom and love; and in this he is eternally centred, and from it he can never be separated. With Whittier he sings: "I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote D: "The Ring and the Book," by Robert Browning.]