The age-herald., 1900-10-29
THE THINGS SEEN
 ARE BUT TEMPORAL But the Things Not Seen
 Are Eternal LlFE'S POOR INDICATIONS
The Present Is But the Stepping stone to the Eternal-The Seen and Un- Unseen Are to Re-act-Dr.
 McFerrin's Logic

Rev, Dr. John P. McFerrin delighted his hearers at the First Methodist church yes tertlay morning with an able and beautiful sermon. His text was ii Corinthians AIS:
 While we look not at things which are seen. but at the things which are unseen: for the things which seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eter- nal"
 The seen and the unseen, said Dr. Meier rim, divide the universe, and what is not embraced in the one is included in the oth- CT. We can conceive of no third class. What is meant by the things that are seen? The created things, the knowledge of which comes to us through our senses; they are the things that are tangible, and affect us in body and soul, and are to be distinguished from things of pure thought. They are temporal, and belong to this world, and pass away. They are things that are necessary to us, but are too often allowed to occupy our thoughts and dom1- nate our affections to the exclusion and neglect of higher things We are related to two worlds-the one that now is and the one that is to come. The things that con stitute the present world perish and pass away, while those that belong to the world to come remain and endure forever. The true philosophy of life is to maintain a proper balance between the two.
 We must eat and drink and be clothed, but ''man does not live by bread alone.'' Life does not consist in the abundance of the things We possess. There should be no conflict between the things seen and the things unseen.
 We are not to fix our affections upon this world to the neglect of the world to come; neither are we to be so occupied with the world to come to neglect the necessary things of this world.
 If our heads are above the clouds, and we breathe an atmosphere that is heavenly and divine, we must not forget that our feet are upon the earth. If the outcome of this life is spiritual blossoming still it has it's roofing in the natural. The most beau- tiful flower that ever bloomed had it's roots in the soil. It would ill become the fra grant blossom to ignore the black earth from which it sprang. The natural-the seen-is the basis upon which we build, for the Apostle truly says that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natu- ral, and afterwards that which is spirit ual.''
 
 the eternal The seen and the unseen are to react the one upon the other and be mutually helpful, for it is only as we see and are affected by the unseen that we can bear the trials and perform alright the du-- ties of the present The conditions of this earthly life too often overcome men with out the compensating and counteracting in- tiuences of the future-the rich to forget God, and the poor to grumble and complain at their lot and despair of both worlds
 All men cannot be rich or occupy posi- tions of honor and trust. There must be "hewers of wood and drawers of water'- men and women to fill the little, low and menial places of life. Are such to grow Respondent and say that life holds nothing of good for them? It is here where the power of the unseen may be felt, for If the present opportunity is too small, the nexv may also be, and the next. and so on ad in finitum. You think that you are nothing but a hod carrier, a street sweeper, scav- enger. You are immortal soul that life.
 In the allotments of earthly labor these necessary things were committed to you, and they do not preclude honesty truth integrity-in fact, all the elements of a grand character. The different callings, professions and avocations of life are tenn poral, and will soon be done with. A man is not to be bod carrier forever; neither will he be capitalist, banker or king forever. He will be an immortal soul, with a character, good or bad, made out of the conditions of this earthly life