The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-02-08
THE HOME CIRCLE.
THE TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL.
A SERMON BY REV +. II. RONS OF GAY
Louisville.

Text. , Cor. 1: Is. For the things which are
seen are temporal, but tn" things wh'h are
not seen are ctcrnal.'
The theological creed Of DR. O. W.
Howard was: II believe in God, | be-
lieve in man. believe in progress. |
think Paul could have subscribed to
that creed. His writ ingS Indicate him
to have been a marvellous thinker, a
great philosopher. Such men natural
ly reason out laws of operation, prin-
ciples of action. He was pre-emincnt-
ly a reasoner and believer in human
progress. His cpistles abound in such
expressions as, 1T doth not yet APP
pear "Going from glory to glory
All who study the philosophy ct life
are impressed with the progressive
order of our continuance. Man has
three forms of life-physical and mem
tai and moral lie Of body. Of brain
and Of soul. He begins very low down
with the physical and reaches very
high in the spiritual.
In early youth the world is only that
which comes in to us through the five
senses, but as we get farther along and
higher along we become conscious Of a
world that is not made known to us
through sense I,er'elt ION, i world We
do not sec or hear or touch or taste.
a world that comes to us Though
thought and feeling and voii1i;n. The
soul has senses corresponding to those
Ct, lNo "a, SO,
the sense OF the beautiful. Hope is
the sense IF the future. Memory is
the sense of the past. Fear il the
sense of danger. Co'lscicnc. is the
sense of right and WrOng. lmagina-
ton think to be the sense Of the
ideal. Everyone has a pattern and
the higher this ideal pattern We crc-
ate he nearer We e ,tllr to iinl. This
ideal j, an inner vision. he glimpse Of
a new world. and her" is &c difference
between sight and insight.
./S!GMT SEES TIL: NJ ATEEIAL WORLD,
insight secs lie imnl'tcriii world.
Men are more and more opening up he
mysteries and secrets Of the inmate
rial and invisible wUr!>. Every few
months some new property Of air or
light or force brings to our Minds, new
evidence Of these great hidden real
tiles. Electricity. wireless 1tlcgra ply.
X-rayS, take us into Il Worl'! We cannot
see. And tho things in this Unseen
world are the most real and positive
and powerful! and last ing. You can
not always truSt in sight. he senses
may be perverted or n.iHtdNcl.
There was d voting man WHO came
up for examination in the navy. The
examiner held ny a watch aud said: ;
'Can you hear this watch tick:'
YES. said lie. Then tl,c quest ioncr
took it back a farth" distance and
said Scan YOU hear ii M,N::" Eyes.
very plainly" replied the young man.
"Wcll." said he examiner. "yn,lr hear
ing must b" perfect, for that watch
stopped two months ago." Now. if he
thought he heard the Watri tick hi,
senses deceived him.
The unseen is more powerful. " hat
holds the planets? What slivrrs th;
oat: Who sees the power THAI drives
the electric car: My text says. 1.-The
things which are seen are temporal.
but the things which are not Scc! are
eternal" You cannot look upon any
thing that is not doomed 10 perish.
God has written "Passng away" upon
all the eye beholds. All eternal things
are unseen-LOve, truth. character.
heaven. Is love any less real than
electricity? You who have felt your