In the still atmosphere, unseen, but all-potent, lies a power ever busy in the work of creating and restoring; or, in other words, in the commonplace work of doing good.

Which office would you like best to assume--which is the most noble--the office of the destroyer or the restorer ?" I lifted my eyes again, and saw men busily engaged in blotting out the traces of the storm, and in restoring all to its former use and beauty.
Builders were at work upon the house which had been struck by lightning, and men engaged in repairing fences, barns, and other objects upon which had been spent the fury of the excited elements.
Soon every vestige of the destroyer was gone.
"Commonplace work, that of nailing on boards and shingles," said the old man; "of repairing broken fences; of filling up the deep foot-prints of the passing storm; but is it not a noble work?
Yes; for it is ennobled by its end.

Far nobler than the work of the brilliant tempest, which moved but to destroy." The scene changed once more.

I was back again from the land of dreams and similitudes.

It was midnight, and the moon was shining in a cloudless sky.