Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-10

things about the moon, about the sun
about the rings OF Saturn. about tran
sits and OCCUPATIONS and cclipses. sim
/ ply because our studio. our observa-
tory is poorly situated We are down
in the cellar trying 10 study the
palace of the universe. while our
departed Christian friends have gone
upstairs amid the skylights to
study. Now, when one can sooner
get 10 the center of things, is he not TO
be congratulated Who wants TO he
always in the freshman class? We
study God i'm this world by the biblical
photograph Of Him; but we all know
we can, in five minutes Of interview
with friend, get a more accurate idea
OF him than we can by studying BIN 30
years through pictures or words The
little child that died last night knows
more of God than all Andovcr. and all
Princeton. and all New Brunswick.
and all Edinburgh, and all the thco-
logical Institutes in Christcndom. Is
1T not better TO go up 10 the very head
quarters OF knowledge?
Docs not our common sense teach us
that IL is better TO be at tlfc center
than TO bc clear out on the rim of the
wheel, holding nervously fast to the
tire, lest we be suddenly hurled into
light and eternal felicity? Through ALI
kinds OF optical instruments trying
10 peer in through the cracks and
the kcyholcs OF Heavcn-afrnid
that both doors of the celestial mansion
will be swung wide open before our en-
tranccd vision-rushing about among
the apothccary shops of the world,
wondering if this is good for rhcuma-
tism. and that is good for neuralgia,
and something else is good for Il bad
cough, lest we bc suddenly ushcrcd into
land of everlasting health. where the
inhabitant never says, II am sick.
What fools we all are to prefer the
circumference to the center. What a
dreadful thing it would bc if we should
he suddenly uahcrcd from this wintrv
world into the May-timc orchards Of
Heaven, and ~ our paupcrism of sin
and sorrow should b, suddenly broken
mp by pres utatiuu OF AN cmpcror's
castle surrounded by parl~Nvith spring
ing fountains and paths MP and down
which angel OF cod walk two and
two. We are all like persons standing
ON the cold steps of the national picture
gallery in London, under umbrella i'm
L rain. afraid to- 90 i'm amid the Tur-
ncrs and the litians aud tho EuphcI~.
| come To- them and say, Why don't
you go inside thc gallery" ooh. they
say I've don't know whether we can
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