'Much of our work must be done
Much of our work must be done in simple faith
We cannot measure spiritual results, as we can those that are physical.
The artist sees the picture growing upon his canvas as he works day by day. The builder sees the wall rising as he lays stone upon stone.
But the spiritual builder is working with invisible blocks, and is rearing a fabric whose walls he cannot see.
The spiritual artist is painting away in the unseen. His eyes cannot behold the impressions, the touches of beauty he makes.
Sometimes the results of work on human lives may be seen . . .
in the conversation of the ungodly,
in the comforting of sorrow, or
in the uplifting and ennobling of the degraded.
And yet much of our work must be done in simple faith , and perhaps in Heaven it will be seen that the best results of our lives have been from their unconscious influences — and our most fruitful efforts those we considered in vain.