The Tupelo journal., 1904-08-05
THE TELESCOPE.
An instrument or Rather Condition
of Mind and Heart Which
Needs Man.

many material substances in the light,
the stethoscope for perceivin8, not by
the eye, the internal state OF the breast;
and various other scopes for perceiving
various things. But what we need most
of all is a Telescope for seeing God,
writes Bishop H. w. Warren, in Chris
tian Work.
This is a legitimate field for scientific
research with suitable instruments. We
need not wait till this muddy vesture
of decay is taken off, as Job said in
despair of present indication, With
out my flesh shall | see God" for Moses
but expressed a desire in accordance
with human possibility when he said:
81 beseech Thee show me Thy glory"
History had told him that the Lord had
appeared under various forms unto
Adam. Abram, Isaac. Jacob and others.
But Moses wanted to see the real es-
sence. For that there must be waiting.
but in the denial, God offered to make
His goodness pass before him. M He
did. to the great irradiating Of his face.
For such vision human eyes are not ade-
quate. Elisha knew that the organs for
seeing spiritual eXistences existed and
only needed ~unveilipg when he said:
Il pray thee open the eyes" of the young
man. The Lord of all spiritual realms
asserted the same fact when He said:
THE pure in heart shall see God" This
shall" has an assertive or imperative
rather than a future force. This is a
common significance. The verb OPTIC
mai, from which this o%psontai, shall
see,' comes, does not mean to see with
eyes exclusively, but it mean to per-
ceive with the mind, to know, as Acts
1928: Il perceive that thou art in the
gall of bitterness and the bond Of in
iquity;" Col. 2:18. seen with feeling of
reverence. american Version note.)
John 3:11 and 80, seen with spiritual or
gans. John 1916, We shall see Me spirit
ually present after My body has de-
parted.
1t also means to become acquainted
with by experience, John 1886. not ex-
perience life. Luxe 1892, Not know by
experience one of the days of the Son of
Man.
1t also means to take heed to, to see
to it. Matt. 27:4, See to your betrayal
of innocent blood yourself. Also verse
"a, See to it yourselves. Acts 1915, See
to the effect OF your own law.
In these senses. hen (a) to perceive
with the mind. 90 to know by expert
ence, (c) and then to reverently take
heed to, man may see God.
What is the instrument. the theo-
scope?
Prof. Agassiz once approached the in
strument of a celebrated microscopes.
but paused and said: Tell me what |
am to see" The microscopic, delighted,
answered: You are a man after my
own heart. You recognize that there
must be a prepared mind to enable the
eye to see rightly" We shall see what
we expect or desire 10 see. Thousands
have eyes but see not the things that are
visible to others. A cold critic, gazing
on one of Turner's gorgeous pictures OF
sky in which God made the outgoing
of the morning and evening rejoice,
said: 81 never see such colors in the
sky as you paint" Don't you wish you
could?" said Turner. 81 never can be-
gin to paint what | see" To some
a primrose by the rivers brim
A yellow primrose is to him,
And it is nothing more.
To another every common bush is afiame
with God. So the first qualification is
desire and expectancy. Then one is
anxious to be taught. like Agassiz, by
artists already qualified. How many OF
them there are. What a choice selec-
ton of the results of their seeing is
recorded in the Bible.
The instrument of this telescope is
the heart. With the heart man believeth
unto righteousness; and this rightness
is the purity in heart that enables IN
TO perceive God. AS the patriot thrills
to see his country in the flag; the bride
to see ~covenanted Constancy of love il
a ring; the Christian to see Divine love
even unto death in the cross, so the pure
in heart have a telescope to see God in
everything that He has made.
How the Bible seers saw Him. The
heavens declare Story of God and the
armament showeth His handiwork.
He bringeth the rPiu. He causeth tbs
grass TO grow. He giveth to the beact
his food. How the hymns roll thu
rhythm Of His presence in nature till
the morning stars sing together and all
the universe is one Eolian harp swept BY
the breath of God.
The harp at natures advent strung
Has never ceased to play;
The song the stars at morning sung
Has never died away
How the world, human history, and
ones individual experience are all glori.
fed when God is perceived, ever dimly.
in them all.
The full revelation is not yet,
For if I could see. as in truth they be.
The glories that e~nci-cle me,
l should lightly hold this tissued fold
With its marvellous curtain of blue ard gold.
The full revelation of God, when VIC
awake in His likeness and see Him as
He is, must be expected, desired and pre-
pared for here. after our telescope.
has been made by the best artist
has been used to perfection by an ex-
pectant soul till God is pavillioned in
every splenGor, breathed in every rose
and all nature sings His boundless love,
then we may say:
oh. the hour when this material
Shall have vanished like a cloud,
When amid the wild ethereal
All the invisible shall crowd
In that sudden strange transition.
By a now but finer sense,
Shall un nrnSn Tho inht x r.irinn =