Homiletic Review 1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither… There is a hidden, withdrawn realm in every one of us, where life is getting itself chiefly shaped. Not e'en the truest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh. "Do noble things, not dream them all day long," urges and sings Charles Kingsley; and it is a good music and a right urging. Yet it is still true that no one can do noble things except he first dream them. There was a voyage to the New World in the thought of Columbus before he left Spain, or there could have been no voyage by ship. There was the boat propelled by steam in the thought of Robert Fulton before the actual boat could go puffing up the Hudson, drawing in its wake the vast retinue of later steam navigation. There must be the hidden dreaming before the doing can be possible. Think of some of these withdrawn and hidden quarries, where the stones are chiefly shaped, which became builded in the temple of our lives — the hidden quarries of the imagination, the affections, the will (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. |
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