The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-20
aE VISION OF PAUL.
n,lstion of Imagination to
Reality in Mems Minds.
| seaMoN BY Mr.. NUTTiNo.
ex~a Of Perfection Necessary - lss
Assssassns-whss They Might
DO In America

prul,s vision was the subject Of Rev.
wallace Nutsing's eloquent morning SER
-. entitled '1Glimpses Of Glory at
evmoush church yesterday. While talk
- On the subject Of giving to the poor in
- preface to the sermon, Mr. Sutting
& e1sks . pleasant word for the Bureau Of
4 l~ocated Charities. The text chosen
-: .Wherefore, o King Agrippa. was
a. discbedisnt unto the heavenly vision"
81 Les xxvi:i9. Mr.. Sutting said:
There have not been wanting creatures
4 - day, Is blue and cold and slippery as
! AZ. who have said that this vision OF
Psai vas only his imagination. While
se reject this Interpretation, Ne viii say
tbst Il speaks we'll for any man to imagine
! vision like this. II ID pity that ell of
= could not dream such dreams. II
dreams arise from the raw materials, 90 to
psak, in the mind, then We must Judge
] 4 men sornewhat by their dreams Ii the
inags that see . really only the product
n my mind, then By the product Of my
e know them. II heavenly vision gets
before as. we may. without learning irs
wirin. proceed to say. blessed are they who
fpsioH II.
The thing that Il imagined il often
eoniounded with the unreal. This u
& wrong What 10 imaged or imagined may
h still more real ...because moro natural.
than the ordinary real thing that we see.
Because . certain horse 10 Q poor spawned
beast, that fact does not render the pic
lnFe OF q noble Arabian steed, as it 10
SNAPPED in your mind, unreal. On the con.
traFy. the poor animal, whose ribs show
Ike the arches OF ruined cathedral that
be wss built on the Gothic plan. compels
I ~ 10 think what horse might be-, and
fkS0 hat ~ oh tn - ~~<A - L.
what he must be in proper state Of So
eiesy.
practical farmers, for instarre, who
scout at the idea of the power Of the
Imagination, forget that every good grade
Of the domestic animal existed FIRST IN the
warm imagination Of an enthusiastic
breeder of stock, who proceeded to make
bis imaginings take on life. The idea of
the perfect is the natural yoke fellow Of
the idea of the imperfect, and the best
Argument for the being of God is the fact
that we want one. and picture one, and
seek for one In the heaven above. In the
earth beneath. and even In the hidden
balls OF the sea.
'There are, IL IL true, diseased imagina-
tons. bodying forth all sorts Of chimeras
dire, but the healthy imagination Is the
prophecy OF that shadowy reality which
advances slowly and majesticaily out from
the fogs Of tho ages. and will stand before
us at last with all tho solidity and dignity
Of the eternal truth, while our little re-
aiiies vanish. or remain as the borders
and train Of that voluminous garment of
grace in which God robes Himself.
Paul saw something; he heard some
thing. but IL did not 20 much matter what
his eyes saw. 1t Is generally supposed
from some hints In his letters that his poor
eyes were his thorn In the flesh. But the
sssentiai thing for him WAS that hs had
NE eyes OF his understanding enlightened.
md that into the dull ear of his conscience
God spoke. until Paul thought the sound
the very trump Of doom. The Importance
Of that glimpse Of glory appears by the
greatness Of the change il wrought in him.
! Hero is little Hebrew, whose bodily
presence was weak, whose eyes were bad.
md whose religion Was = crime, brought
IN to amuse luxurious king and volup-
tnous court. very much as monkey or
jester would be required to while away
the tedious hours. But little by little the
: scene changes, a. the small form diiates
with the burden OF its oracle, and the lips
grew warm With their glowing story, and
the eyes biaxed with Promethean tire, and
the diminutive prisoner rose like an
awakened Samson, shook forth his locks
and laid hold with one hand upon the
pillar OF logic, while with the other he
erasped the pillar of the imagination,
those twin servants of thought, and
shook its temple over the covering
king, until from his high seat he grovelcd
snd saw before him the reincarnation of
the spirit of the ancient glories of the
Hebrew nation which he was expressing,
and in that prisoner whom he had sum-
rioned he saw tho ghost of Moses giving
the law. of Elijah shifting Baai and
Daniel come TO Judgment He saw all
this and felt il in his little heart that this
Gods nobleman spoke to him thus because
glorifed By the light, eloquent by the
message and impelled by the momentum
of = heavenly visionl
As the glass gathers up the rag, OF
white sunlight and centers, their hea,
upon point until fire breaks out, so
Paul. gathering up the light of that
heavenly vision, turned IL upon the dark
heart OF the king and made him writhe
beneath the divine fire. Very we'll, says
some one, but how am TO SEQ heavenly
visionse Nobody ever spoke to me out
OF heaven
"The experience Of Paul il not 90 iso-
lated as some think. Wherever you see
anything great done you may conclude
that the doer of IL. like Moses, saw the
pattern in the mount We like To turn
Oh good work and give the impression
who said. i speak the things which
have seen with Nv Father. We shine
with q borrowed radiance, and then tell
men that the light IL latent in ourselves.
Paul bore another message, AT midday,
King, saw light from heaven
"a main reason why We see no glimpses
OF glory is because we do not look for
them. We let them alone for the Pauls
AMI the Stephens the Johns and the
kilahs. We leave the visions for them
and they see them. The good things OF
0od are not for US. because We say they
Are net for rs. Let us not be disposed to
Gu. ourselves of in this manner from our
eirtArlghb. How many futile people have
passed by the great dome Of an observa-
tory and remarked that astron-
study. but it is not for us. Yet
the little barefoot who looks mp and says
I will be an astronomer studies the
stars. follows the planets in their sweep,
searches out the dim tmmeasities, and
sants the bounds of darkness, and seeks
the way where light dwslleth. He balances
hssimaslnation on the rings Of Saturn,
ana weighs the very sun. He At last directs
TIE work Of an observatory and becomes M
historian OF the skies. and looks over at
the neople who pass by and say thai as
Honomy is not for them.
That art, that science, that mighty life
Tor YOU Who want IL Genius some
cmes does something. but Carlyle says
thatihe lives If geuinses read like ex-
Tracts from the Sewgate calendar. Most
Fsat0SeS drink. and the majority were
miserable. Poor little Pope, chronic IN.
nid. lite-&ong cripple. sour, cold
sfsrit, without poetic fire, set himself TO
te tue great poet Of his time. and ne
reached the pinnacle in fnen's opinion.
sad although they fell away from that
eEihlan, they are now coming back TO al
msre the finish OF his work. lie did Rot
sant 10 I've a ioyabie man; he did not pray
Tor Tenderness anA hRnsx. a lacked Z