Macartney on the Windows of Life
“In the National Geographic Magazine sometime ago I read a description and saw pictures of the strange towerlike houses built somewhere in the Caucasus. The peculiarity of these odd structures is that they have no windows. As long as they are in the house the people live in darkness. A house without windows is a dismal place — a dungeon rather than a house, a prison rather than a home. Too many persons live with nothing but an ‘inlook'; they contemplate their own troubles and dwell with their own petty schemes until they become morbid, disagreeable, like an unsunned chamber.
With the music of his inimitable prose John Bunyan tell us, ‘The pilgrim laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened toward the sunrising. The name of the chamber was Peace.’ We must have chambers opening toward the sunrising. In an address made to the students of the University of Edinburgh, Viscount Haldane said, ‘The way to escape from the depressions incident to the numerous reverses of life, and that deeper depression which arises from no external cause, is by acquiring a large outlook.” — Clarence E.N. Macartney, Macartney's Illustrations: Illustrations From the Sermons of Clarence Edward Macartney (1945), pp. 257-258