Sure-Footed / The Refiner’s Fire

Sure Footed In some ways the animals of the wild are superior to man. Mountain goats and big-horn sheep and several of the deer family are amazingly sure footed. It is nothing unusual for these animals to pick out their paths on the narrow ledges of a rock cliff. They need but little space for their hoofs, and the sheer drop of the cliff troubles them not at all. But sometimes even the narrow ledge comes to an end. Then the impossible is performed. Reaching up, and pawing the rock with his...