People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
REVELATION AND HOPE.
The One Reaches Out From the Seen and
Reveals the Other From the Unseen.

these two. 1t is true that they act and
react upon one another. This study
looks at hope as the modifier. Revela-
tion is the possible dawn for the soul.
Hope is the 'open, eager, earnest eye
looking for the dawn. Revelation ap.
!proaches from the unseen. Hope
reaches out from the seen. What hope
looks for must mold and modify the
revelations received. Hope defines to
a large degree the limits of the revela-
tion. The greatness and the quality,
the steadfastness'and the earnestness
OF the souls hope decide what the soul
shall see
Men are many times only mediocre
workmen from just this cause; hope
has been too limited, too nearly salts.
fed. The horizon has become fixed.
Their calling no longer hints at larger
possibilities either of knowledge or Of
gain. 1t is not that men have reached
the limit Of the possible, but hope has
mo longer a growing horizon. In
science the man who is not so elated
over present discovery as to find in it
the end of all study, is the one who
pushes forward with even larger hope.
He shall add new revelations to those
already received. The astronomer
would not be worthy the name, who
believed that 'be had discovered the
last orb tobe found and counted it use
less to still attempt to push out the
limit points of vision. He whose
horizon is not fixed still hopes to find
"Other warlds to conquer" whose
treasure may be added to what has
lopened already to him. HOPE enters
the unseen and draws the faith. the
effort and the life after it. No eyes are
open to sec new revelations, if they
have not i4rSt seen the beautiful form
iof hope fur in advance. 20 ears are
Iopen to hear new revelations, if thew
have not first listened to the sweet
voice Of hope. No feet have been
ready tomove, no hands ready to work,
that have mot been moved by hope.
1t takes the Inspiration Of hope to pre-
pare the mind, to stir the heart for
larger things.
Q Hope has preceded where spiritual
truths were the burden of revelation.
Hope Of the highest kind has domi-
mated the individual where revela.
lions of the highest kind have been re,
eeived. The hopes may have been, in.
deed Of necessity were, more or less
vague and indefinite. Nevertheless
they held the soul open to receive.
They kept the individual in the teach
able attitude. 1t was the attracting
leading power of great hope that
dominated the life of Abraham. That
hope kept the patriarch constantly on
the heights looking into the future.
THE hope that looked into the future
meant a soul alert and active. As
iAbraham's hope grew, larger revela.
tions came. Hope prepared the heart.
1t was when Israel were stirred BY
their great hope, when it was con.
stantly before them as the largest,
Igrandest thing in all their life, that
Gods prophets brought wonderful
things from within the veil and spoke
them in the ears Of the expectant PEG.
pile. But when their eyes became sat.
listed with seeing, and their ears filed
with hearing" indicating . waning
hope, prophetic utterances grew faint.
er, until no voice spoke for the God Of
Israel. The decline Of hope was marked
by ths decline Of revelation. Itseemed
as though the gates of the Unseen.wers
fast closed against men. The CEN
Ituries passed away. There came a
revival Of hope. Men everywhere,
jew and Gentle alike, were stirred
to expectancy. Men studied the earth
and air and sky. Not in vain did the
eyes look. Not In vain did the ears
listen. A star appeared in the sky. An
angel chorus was heard in the air.
The Babe was found at Bethlehem.
They who saw the star were looking
Tor some revelation. They whs heard
the gloria of the angels were listening
for some voice to break the silence.
They who looked upon the face of the
Babe had the face turned in that direc-
tion.
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God has given to His people such
promise that hope should be ever push
ing on to greater heights. Hope
still modi6es revelation. Hope is
still prophecy. The presence of
An enthusiastic, overmastering hope
must effect what we shall be
able to gather of truth from
Gods voices. Without such hope there
can be no great entrance into the
Word. There can be no deep hunger
to gather new mama. There can be
no reverent eagerness to seek for the
new things which the Christ has to IN,
fold. Without such hope there can
be NO deep desire and purpose to con
vert the Divine at the summit of the
mountain into the human at the base. ("
Indeed. the Divine at the summit could
not be heard or seen. Waning hope
means an ear growing dull of hear
ing. This accounts for the heart
that is slow to believe and for the
Esprit that is slow to see the signals
that are to be seen flashing forth from
Divine truth and Divine movements.
Let hope be fed. A nourished hope
shall still mean larger spiritual life.
Back to Christ. he Is the inspiration
of hope. Back to the promiser. BE
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