does not tell us here that all men shall know
all things that must be; that all men have a sense of futurity. What
he does say is that there is an intimate and indissoluble relationship
between elevation and futurity; that only the man who stands upon the
altitudes can command the future; for only there, when he is at his
best, and when he is living on the summit of his soul, does he behold
the true and perfect action of the forces and the laws of the Eternal.
It is not "Stay down there and I will show thee things which must be
hereafter," but "Come up hither"--live, aspire, ascend into the
altitudes of mind; ascend into the altitudes of feeling; ascend into
the altitudes of conscience; live where God means you to live, and
then--"I will show thee things which must be hereafter."

And now, if you will consult your own experience or meditate on
history, if you will scan the great things thought and the great things
done, and the great things wrought and the great things won by man, you
will see that they have been always wrought and won and done and
thought upon the heights. The Muses live upon Parnassus, the Deities
upon Olympus. Jehovah has his abiding place on Zion. David says, "I
look unto the hills, whence cometh my help." Not unto the meadows, or
the streams, or by the forests, or the cities, or the seas, but "unto
the hills, whence cometh my help." He looks high, and his high vision
grants him spiritual perspective. And Jesus speaks his great sermon,
not by the Jordan, but on the mount. He is transfigured on a mount,
crucified on a mount, and ascends to the right hand of His Father from
a mount. Everywhere the heights play a great part in the history of
human thought, feeling and faith. All great truth comes down; it does
not rise up. All great religion comes down; it does not rise up. It
is not the wilderness, nor the low lands, nor the level places, but
Mount Carmel, Mount Horeb, Mount Zion, the Mount of the Beatitudes and
the Mount of Transfiguration that are focal points of righteousness and
faith. And when you look at and reflect upon men--the great men, the
men who have moulded the world, who have made the massive contributions
to humanity, who have dealt the Titan strokes that have redeemed the
race from its servitudes and bestialities, who, like Atlas, have upheld
and lifted up the world; who, like Prometheus, have brought to man
precious gifts from Zeus, and so delivered him from the tyranny a