There are no failures for the divine Husbandman, no seed which is not living, which falls from His hands into the ground.

And near us the Masters stand ever, the living truth of what man can be--nay, what he shall be in the centuries to come.

They are proofs of what you and I shall be, the finished copies of the statues which lie as yet so rough, so unhewn, in the marble of our humanity.

That is Their value for all men, and part of Their work is to help us to become what They are, to foster in us every shoot of the spiritual life, to strengthen in us every effort and struggle towards the light.

Theirs the glorious work, not only of building up mighty faiths, but of living in them, and pouring out spiritual life on the heart of each who enters within the portals of those faiths.