The King's Highway Across Life's Trackless Desert

Maclaren draws two contrasting images of the wilderness that arrest the soul. First, the lost traveler in an endless desert—surrounded by bleaching bones of former victims, the monotonous swells of sand-heaps stretching to the horizon, no landmarks, no guides. The wanderer circles in vain, desperate and frantic, until exhaustion forces him to surrender to death. This is the portrait of godless life: pathless, purposeless, dying under broad heavens in the open face of day.…