Many are there now, amid the world's throngs, who once sat at the Lord's Table and were among God's people.

Unfinished buildings their lives are, towers begun with great enthusiasm and then left to tell their sad story of failure to all who pass by.

They began to build and were not able to finish.
It is sad to think how much of this unfinished work God's angels see as they look down upon our earth.

Think of the good beginnings which never come to anything in the end; the excellent resolutions which are never carried out, the noble life-plans entered upon by so many young people with ardent enthusiasm, but soon given up.

Think of the beautiful visions and fair hopes which might be made splendid realities, but which fade out, not leaving the record of even one sincere, earnest effort to work them into reality.
In all lines of life we see these abandoned buildings.