The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-01

ledge Of Cod is very unsatisfactory. the knowledge
OF God depends upon development In our
God that IL not In some degree 10 US.
Why cannot the lower animals understand US
not so between us and supreme inteigencess Parts
or God we understand, but growth Is
THE ONLY INTERPRETATION
that will reveal Him u.s. and that growth will nos
be here. Now our God Is like brilliant star-too
far for measurement In the ages to come we
as we are. Admit that God Is per-
feet wisdom and Justice but VINO under
but wordsf Who could tell the colors Of autumn on
seeing only tine first glow OF spring. Imagine an
Esquimaux trying to get an idea of the vegetation
OF the tropics OF the glory Of tropical skies. sitting
The ages TO come will reveal a personal expe-
rience In us or which we have now but the fainlest
traces. You never can tell
HOW THE BLOSSOMS OF NEW TREE WILL LOOK.
no idea OF The unknown blossoms At last blooms.
aud can you tell what the lrut WIN per NOW there
by winch you can Judge OF the
RIPE STATE.
Who would have suspected in tine days OF barbarism
the powers OF the human mind? Our conditions
are such that we cannot Judge OF the future. Who
can tell the changes we shall meet when we shall
have dropped the body with all Its hindering pas
slonsY Some mems bodies are like o boat with too
large an engine; others have TOO much boat for the
engine. Some boats are too long and some too
short; some have too much sail others not enough.
we have got to take this problem OF lie In the struc
lure COO mas given u.s. and bear right up toward
helped nor hlndered by these bodies. some believe
IN the resurrection OF the bodies. but not /.
HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF 1T.
GO0dby. flesh and blood. don't know what shan
have IN lis place but believe 1t win be magnifcent
Then we shall be surrounded by influences OF which
we know not now. What would IL be to live for q
single year among those who
LIFT UP EVERY FEELING,
where every eye shall shine like star? Now we are
oppressed even by the well meaning. What Will
that State be where everybody helps? hopeful
and joyful imagination or the ages to come though
inaccurate, as IT Will be- Is, then, desirable. We shall
not conceive rightly OF future state but there N
no danger OF exaggerations slow much better to
live by faith than by sight, That which q man sees
IN TINS world Is not to be compared TO that which
We imagine. We are to have in eye that looks
beyond. 1t IS sad to see how average men live In
tins world. How little they have; how they
YEAkN FOR HAPPINESS
and find II not The most Dteous thing IN the world
Is 10 see how men i've. But a Christian man knows
he is only pilgrim anu stranger goInR nome. He
paints pictures, carves statues as he goes along.
filling the
GREAT. EMPTY HEAVENS
with beauty. lie IS lifted by Iaitn above the duh,
soddcn reality, and with faith looks TO the happy
future. Men don't like TO think OF growing Old
They don't ike to feel the keel Of the boat CRATE and
to find the water growing shallow. me Christian
man takes the KNOCKS and mlsortunes OF life feel-
ing that he owns the ages to come.
THE NATURAL MAN
Is losing everything the spiritual man Is gaining all
the time. What is the perisiling OF this outward
bOdyf Ii the outward body perish the inward body
grows rich and strong. l love TO think that the
mystery OF the silence or death is not really mys-
terry.
OUR FRIENDS ARE SEPARATED FROM US
merely because they are lifted 50 far above our
faculties that we cannO, see them. The companions
that have lett US are near u.s. they love US, but we
cannot commune with them because they are lifted
out OF our conditions. Theirs Is tne 1uture-ours
the waiting. SO we look away from the storm. the
evil the temptations and trials to that blessed land
In which IS perfect thought perfect feeling perfecs
association, perfect knowledge; where knowing as
we are KNOWN, we snail be forever blessed.