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

baby's arms about your neck, and heard
it say, "Papa," "Mamma,' do you
doubt the reality of love? You who
have experienced the pardoning love
Of Jesus and heard him say: "Thy sins
which were many are all forgiven
thee" do you question his love, when
He took our case to Calvary:
HEAVEN IS UNSEEN BUT 1T IS ETERNAL,
and one evidence of it's permanency is
that we cannot look upon it with the
natural eye. All material representa-
tions of heaven place it in the category
of the transient, and no doubt that
the command against craven images
of God is that it lowers mems cOncep-
tions of the Infinite by making Him a
being Of sense perception. God, VINO
is Love. is like true human love in
this that whenever we try to express
it we carnaliZe it and lower it. God
is Spirit, represent Him on canvass,
employ the artists skill and you locate
Him and destroy in your own minds
His highest attributes. Can we by
any image of form and features, see
and all time? No. If you would see
God shut your eyes and feel out after
Him through other avenues of your
being-thrOugh the senses Of the soul.
God is Spirit and is spiritually dis
cerned
Christ came to show us God, and
when He stood before men He said:
'He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father" What did He mean? that
the form they looked upon was the
Father? No. All the human eye
ever saw of Jesus was the physical
features, which disappeared in the
gloritied. Life is not seen. I never
saw you, you never saw me.
l wish to find a person have never
met. l am directed where to go. The
house is described, the location noted.
l go and ring the bell and a man comes
to the door and I say, "You are Mr.
Jones?' eyes"
l know you by the house you live in.
The roof is covered with black or
brown or gray hair. The windows in
your house are blue or black or hazel.
Your house is high or low, large or
small. I find you in this way.
''MOther is coming home,' you say.
She has been away to receive surgical
treatment. The deformity has been
removed. She doesn't look at all as
she did. The house has been changed
but it's Mother within.
Death is moving out of the body
house. Now can life, that is unseen
here, dwell in a heaven that may be
seen. If conversation is mind in con-
tact with mind here,
WHAT WILL OUR CONFIRMATION
in heaven be? If mind can communi-
cate with mind through valley and
lake without any material connection,
is it unphilosophical that God should
do the same? Does the Christian get
any message from heaven? Does the
Infinite Father speak to His children:
This most real and lasting and beau
tiful unseen world is opened up to us
through Jesus Christ, by faith in Him
Faith is the evidence of things not
seen, the substance of things hoped
for. Faith sees. "My faith look up
to thee" 1t sees God-seeS the in
visible world. Faith trusts. We have
never seen Jesus but we know He is,
for the Surer senses of our being have
revealed Him. Lady Henry Somerset
was converted in this Way-Walking
in her garden one day meditating on
the things Of God, a voice that seemed
to be real and positive spoke to her
heart and said: "Act as if | were and
you shall know that | am
Bradford, in his book, "The art of
living alone,' says: ''Those who are
receptive and patient who earnestly
try to follow Christ, sooner or later
find that the consciousness of unseen
realities, like great wave rolling in
from the deep sea, sends it's peace and
rest into all the secret receSses of the
soul"
"Jesus, these eyes have never seen
That radiant form of thine.
The veil OF sense hangs dark between
Thy blessed face and mine
hoo r l.,.,