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He who works on material things leaves results that will perish. The noblest buildings crumble. The finest pictures the artist puts on canvas fade out. Nothing done in matter is immortal, for matter is perishable. But he who works on the unseen, the spiritual, leaves impressions that shall endure forever. The touch of beauty you put upon a life yesterday by the earnest word you spoke, by the new impulse you started in the heart of your friend, by the vision of heavenly purity you gave in your own life to one who was with you, will be bright, when the sun and stars shall have burned out to blackness. What we do on immortal lives is immortal work. Then of all work on human lives, the saving of souls is the most blessed. He who adds the least touch of beauty to a saved life does more than he who paints a masterpiece; but he who brings a lost soul to the Saviour, who seeks and finds a wandering sheep and bears it back to the fold, does the noblest, greatest work possible on this earth. To work, therefore, for eternity, we must work on human lives, not merely on wood or stone.