Excerpt from For Shine and Shade: Short Essays in Practical Religion ID you ever wait to learn the lesson the Magi teach us in their gifts to the infant Jesus? They laid at his feet not anything unworthy, not that which cost them little in the getting, nor just the common things they could pick up easily and anywhere but they brought for presentation to him the best and costliest their toil and love could win - gold, frankincense, myrrh. They did their best. They gave their best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.