The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-27
THE UNSEEN.
.Materialism the Shallowest Of All Modern
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The tendencies Of the age are mate
realistic. There are very many who re-
fuse to believe in the unseen. That
they should so refuse is both unreasona-
BILE and sunphilOsophical. Nature
abounds in that which to the naked eye
is unseen. Before the invention Of the
microscope who imagined that there
were myriad worlds Of life below the
range of the unaided vision, and that
beyond the stars revolved iunnumbered
hosts Of suns and worlds? Grayitation,
electricity, galyanism, magnetism, are
all more or less unseen forces.
"a, Take away the unseen and spiritual
forces from humanity, and man would
have only the brute nature remaining.
Love and truth, faith and hope, all the
various faculties Of the mind, as mem
DRY, imagination and will, are unseen.
They can not be weighed in scales or
measured with yard-stick. These un-
seen forces are after all the most real
and vital. They are the permanent
elements in life and humanity. tHi9lf
Without them the physical universe
would sink back again to chaos, and hu-
manity would lack every vital and no.
BILE faculty. When we speak Of certain
things as unseen, we do not mean that
under no circumstances can they ever
be manifest to the senses.
The microscope and the telescope
have brought into the range Of vision
that which was before by man unseen.
To blind man all things lie outside
the sense Of vision. This principle ap-
plies to all the other senses. A totally
deaf man lives entirely outside the
world Of sound, although its vibrations
are all about him. 1t is very likely that
much lies outside of all our known
senses. New senses would no doubt re-
veal new worlds. Right here may be
hidden many mysteries that lie in the
border-land between science and quack-
cry. the mountain side flowed with
horses and chariots Of fire, yet only
when the servant of the prophet had his
eyes opened, received celestial or spir-
itual vision, did he become aware Of
their presence. Had we such vision,
Jacobs ladder would still be reality,
and the heavens above US would be all
aglow with the shining Of celestial
hosts. t A iba 5Hpif 10
After all, the seen is only apprehended
through the unseen. What is it that
sees? Not the material eye, else vision
would not cease as soon as life had fed.
1t is the spirit, the mysterious life and
personality behind the eye, that sees.
What human skill can make micro.
scope that can see, or stethescope that
can hear, or can endow any machine
with life or spirit? Here we pass over
the seen to the unseen. Gods word re.
veals to us the unseen and supernatural.
God Himself is spirit, and hides away
from the physical senses Of man. A vail
that in this state we can not lift, con-
ceals from us the light and glory Of the
light beyond. .4L4#g g
The natural grows out Of the super
natural. Before all things is God, the
great Am, the unseen Jehovah. The
supernatural and divine controls the
natural. by Him all things con.
sist." The greatest minds, the New
tons and Bacons, have believed
in the unseen. Faith in the un-
seen gives dignity and import
TO human life, gives hope in be.
reavement and victory in death. For a
man to reject these great truths because
he does not see that which, to his pres
ont nature, is unseen, or because he can
not comprehend them, is the height Of
folly. As we'll might worm, burrow-
ing in the earth discredit the. existence
of oceans, seas and mountains, Of fam
ing sun and silvery moon. Would 1t be
fair for man born blind to deny the
beauties of earth, and glory of the sky!
The divine law is that, if any man
will, he ''shall know the doctrine. v
The "pure in heart shall see God" but
the carnal mind is ''enmity against
God" sd.fH i. -rt
Faith is itself the evidence Of things
not seen,"-Rey, Jesse S. Gilbert, In