The angel and the star Author:Ralph Connor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: long ? Wilt Thou be angry forever ? Hast Thou forgotten to be gracious? " As if in answer, a great calm fell upon him. A sudden faith subdued his soul into st... more »illness. " I will remember the years of the Most High. I will remember Thy wonders of old." Jehovah seemed very near. He rose and stood with his face wrapped in his mantle. His very soul seemed to be listening for the footfalls of God. All Nature seemed to be aware of that Great Presence. About him he fancied he could hear the breathing of the hills, the heart-beat of the night, the music of the stars. Music ? Hark I He threw back his mantle and lifted up his face to the stars. His soul was bathed in a flood of ineffable joy. What was it? Music seemed to be raining from the stars in an exquisite faintness of melody. From beyond the stars, so far and fine it seemed. He listened, his soul and being tense in a quivering agony to hear. Yes, there again and fuller came the sounds, still from beyond the stars. But the very stars seemed nearer, the heavens above had bent closer to the hills as if to take them into their embrace. Again and yet again and ever clearer that falling shower of song filled the air abouthim and nearer and nearer came the stars irradiating the night. The sleeping watchers woke, and startled, rose, stood voiceless and terror-stricken. And now from the parted curtains of heaven a light began to glow brighter than the stars, making a shining pathway to earth and spreading over all the sky till it filled the night with glory ; and down this quivering pathway myriads of shining ones streamed till they filled the earth and the spaces between earth and sky, and still they thronged in the far vanishing spaces of the opened heavens. Ravishing music smote in soft waves upon the ears of the Shepherd gazing ...« less