Excerpt from The Shepherd's Question It is in the day that faith wanes, in the day, when the things of sense oh trude themselves and life is hidden by the chaff and the husks of the material. We build our atheisms out of the things we see. But when night is come, and life's littleness sinks into the vastness of the overshadowing quiet; and the earth, lifted into the hush of infinite peace, is no longer a prodigal planet, drunken with the riot of sense and mad with the greed of the market; when the glamour of day has faded and the dark ness has hidden the signs of our mor tality, then does the soul come to itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.