The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-26
UPIIFTS.

It happens to nearly every one, some time in life,' to get a vision of higher things-a door is opened into the heavens Paul di not know, at one time, whether l was in the flesh or out of the flesh: he was caught up to see and to feel, so far above the common level of his life. It was vision that affected his whole career and his lie work. In some way you will find all the heroic characters of antiquity were thus lifted at times out of themselves and above the worlds common level. Moses saw God on a mount This was not priestly extravaganza but as near a. literal statement of facts as could be construed into language. Tt is a pitiful life," says Harris, that does not see one gleam through it's conventionalisms, into something grander and holier, that never hears God or sees him or feels that the divine fatherhood is the most real fact of life" These uplifts were not confined to Jews, and Christians; but the heathen spoke of gods as appearing to their heroes The highest heroisn was identified with piety toward those dl- vine beings who opened the skies ard revealed the future. To Homer the heavens were as full of God as they were to Moses or Paul or Luther.
 Is there no also in higher natures Q consciousness dimly caught, but cer- tain, that it's acts are but parts Of vast plan, into which they fit, and that its purposes, somehow, are parts ot the universal knoWeldge? So it is that noble mind having for years worked, thwarted in many directions, and hin- dered in its best efforts, finds it's work suddenly available. Then the mind catches a flash of that larger Will, that Supreme Container, "in whom we live and move and have our being" As we look onward and upward, we see not only that life and intelligence are com ing to richer unfoldings, but we are sure to reach also higher moral rela- tions. The divine beauty, truth and goodness of the universe grow at last to be the most vital of all facts. 1t IS no longer an occasional uplift that we need or secure; but we come, by the path of childhood and youth, to face the Infinite Self as our father, With whom we walk eternally in harmony or purpose Evolutions opens our eyes to the magnificent panorama of an eternal unfolding of relations of life, full II purposive love, which, rising from the vast unfathomableness of the sent1ent universe, at last lifts us, as conscious beings. near to the haart of the su- preme All in AL and with him and in him and by him bids us consciously to live and move and have our being"
 If we are not candidates for higher things and higher methods of life, we cannot explain the glimpses of some thing higher that come into our com mon life. What we need to know is how far 1t is possible for us to enlarge life's upward looking. Are we not liv- ing a far meaner life than Is necessary? Can we live in consciousness of walk ing with God? We are not asking con- cerning any ecstasy and extraordinary uplift, but concerning a clearer-sighted, more spiritual everyday life WhaAAs Christianity, supported by modern sci ence. if it cannot make more real for us our relation to God, and more per manent and more secure our vision or the father ?-From the Christian Regis ter.