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 And a burning ring, all round, the chariots traced As they raced, And the monarch and his minions and his dames Viewed the games."

All this is gone. The only wealth of the past which has survived is such as Christ referred to. "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." The ideas and the literature which enshrined them alone remain. Not the manuscripts. They are gone, as though God would show in the most vivid way His scorn of the visible and earth's "real." Not one original page of Plato exists. But Plato's mind is here still. The kings are gone. But Isaiah and Jeremiah, the men of the inward resources, spokesmen and ministers of the invisible life, abide.

"The tumult and the shouting dies The captains and the kings depart Still stands Thine against sacrifice A humble and a contrite heart."

And the issue is clear enough when we look at it concretely to-day and contrast the men who have the inward resources with those who have not, the movements which are fed from deep ideal springs with those which deal skin-deep only with humanity. In one of our American cities the president of a large institution was shelved in the prime of life by younger and less conservative men who acquired control of the business. They treated the older man well, gave