The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-02-08

Text, 2 Cor 4: 49, For the things which are
seen are temporal, but the things which are
not seen are eternal.
The theological creed of DR. O. w.
Howard was: 81 believe in God, | be-
lieve in man, believe in progress" l
think Paul could have subscribed to
that creed. His writings 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-eminent-
ly a reasoner and believer in human
progress. His epistles abound in such
expressions as, at doth not yet ap-
pear" "Going from glory to glory
All who study the philosophy of life
are impressed with the progressive
order of our continuance. Man has
three forms of Metaphysical and men
tai and moral-life 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 perception, a world we
do not see or hear or touch or taste,
a world that comes to us through
thought and feeling and volition. The
soul has senses corresponding to those
of the body. The aesthetic faculty is
the sense of the beautiful. Hope is
the sense of the future. Memory is
the sense of the past. Fear is the
sense of danger. Conscience is the
sense of right and wrong. Imagina-
ton Think to be the sense of the
IDEAL Everyone has pattern and
the higher this ideal pattern we Gre
ate the nearer we come to God. This
ideal is an inner vision, the glimpse of
new world, and here is the difference
between sight and insight.
SIGHT SEES THE MATERIAL WORLD,
insight sees the immaterial world.
Men are more and more opening up the
mysteries and secrets of the inmate
rial and invisible world. 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 telegraphy,
x-rays, take us into world we cannot
see. And the things in this unseen
world are the most real and positive
and powerful and lasting. You can
not always trust in sight, the senses
may be perverted or mistaken.
There was young man who came
up for examination in the navy. The
examiner held up a watch and said:
Scan you hear this watch tick?'
eyes" said he. Then the questioncr
took it back a farther distance and
said: ''Can you hear it nOw?'' Eyes,
very plainly" replied the young man.
"Well," said the examiner, ''your hear
ing must be perfect, for that watch
stopped two months ago" Now, if he
thought he heard the watch tick his
senses deceived him.
The unseen is more powerful. What
holds the planets? What slvers the
oat? Who sees the power that drives
the electric car? My text says, ''The
things which are seen are temporal,
but the things which are not seen are
eternal" You cannot look upon any
thing that is not doomed to perish.
God has written ''Passing 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 telt your