peared still taller because of the increased magnifying power of the light which shone from the sun, which was still shining in all his splendor at the spot where the traveler halted to gaze upon the picture. Rain began to fall beyond the stretch of trees, the rain clouds approached nearer and nearer, until they hung in the sky between the traveler and the towering spires. The sun, then forty-five degrees below the meridian, and slowly sinking to the west, was radiant in all his splendor. Then appeared one of the miracles of nature, a bow upon the face of Heaven. It was of immense proportions, spanning one-third of the sky, but what made it most impressive was that it shone above the dark green of the pines, and against the blackness of the clouds. The effect was so striking and spiritual that it seemed as though the
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