The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

andS or now many millions o.
years this globe in all it's varying
forms has rolled on through
space ? We cannot tell when
by the power of almighty law
our solar system, among myriC
other solar systems, commenced
journeyings and swayings OF
such marvellous accuracy as tc
permit the calculation, years in
advance, of the exact spot where
the heavenly bodies will be at a
certain moment. Yet in those
unknown ages of the past, the
possibilities of all knowledge
that now is were buried. Now
we understand that messages can
be sent from hemisphere to hem
isphere without a wire. Yet this
has been possible ever since the
dawn of creation. In other words.
wireless telegraphy, or any 9TH
er mysterious power that we
have secured from nature, was
always there waiting to be dis
covered, was always true, had
bided its time through the ages.
simply waiting for the seer to
see. Between those creation
days and our day stretch ages of
cropping for light and seeking for
knowledge, and the world has
been discovering part truths ever
since the first inquiring glance of
the eye, with intelligence back
of it, looked out upon the world.
A truth never varies. 1t is the
understanding of a truth that
varies. 1t is the tendency of part
knowledge to claim for itself full
knowledge; hence, persecution
by the narrow-minded of those
who would not concede that all
hitherto known was all that could
be known. Our human tendency
has been to feel that what we
knew was all and to be content
with that limited knowledge
rather than to cast ourselves out
ward into the flowing stream
that ever passes by the things
that are discovered, forward to
the things that are yet to be dis
covered and which in themselves.
after all, r only part truth and
not all of it.
Take an illustration to prove
that even truth about physical
things is not brought into exis.
tence by knowledge. Deep down
in South Africa the Zambesi
Falls, with a volume greater than
that of Niagara, have been thun.
dering through their gorge of
disappearance age after age,
sending up their clouds of vapor
as proof of the mighty force
there going to waste. They are
a truth. The fact that Living
ston at last saw these magnifi-
cant falls, now to be chained to
produce power for huge, unde-
veloped region once given over
10 wild beasts and brutal men.
does not make these falls any
more a truth than they ever
were. From this one illustra-
ton, we having minds can null
tiply a thousand.
We see that my apprehension
and your apprehension of any
truth, spiritual or physical, does
not affect truth at all. 1t affects
us. The more of truth we under.
stand in any line of ~investiga-
ton, the more our hearts grow
hungry for fuller truth, unless
we are of the foolish kind who
are content with a mere taste in
stead of the fullness that is for
one who will take truth
and cieave to it. A little truth
creates hunger. A little truth
the mind, so that it grows
afraid of dogma. Truth, par
tlcularly in spiritual matters,
tends to make us suspect those
who are absolutely positive in
their assertions. The idea we
To-Day may be quite chang
tomorrow by more apprehen-
sion, just rs the simple play
of those who first discov-
cred the power of vaporized
water, has developed until thun-
dering locomotives drag enor-
nous tonnage behind them; or,
just as the power that Franklin
puzzled over when his kite was
IN the thundercloud, has been
more fully understood until vast
rivers are harnessed and the
power of their forces is turned
into invisible currents that miles
away work the will of men like
ntelligent creatures.
Every line of human knowI-
edge is still in a condition of
There is no exception.
The more we know of the uni
the moro wa lxnnm rc .Lo