Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-26

the same chalk and pointer, demon
strate exactly opposite conclusions
IL takes churches on nearly every
fashionable corner to show how little
we really know about each others
emotional life.
We have a rather vague idea that in
the next life we are to get rid of some
ca our present organic conditions and
really see each other. But we have
never yet obtained glimpse of such
a way of living, and science does not
encourage us in the hope of even
reaching such a stage of existence.
We simply do not know just how the
spnIt or the ego looks, nor how it
communicate in another life. What
are we going to do about this puzzle?
What do we do in everyday life?
Evidently wo do not worry over IL,
A recent writer says: MY boy jumps
into my arms, and calls me endearing
names, quite content to let the prob,
lem of whom l am and where l am
alone. If you say to him that what he
embraces is only blood, bones and
tissue, he says, All the same, this is
my father, and l do see him.
Is it any wonder if we find this
puzzle of personality extended to
all intelligence? Who is God? Where
is God? Who has at any time seen
God? All the world seems to believe
in a Cod but no one, through all the
ages of religious belief, has ever yet
set eyes ON this infinite being, "Show
us God, and that sufficeth u.s." is a
universal demand. The aucients felt
this trouble SO seriously that their
soothsayers were compelled to pro-
fess supernatural vision. All sacred
books are based on an effort to get
around natures puzzle. They allow to
certain persons special privileges Of
seeing God and talking with him
The rest of mankind must be content
to take their knowledge of any such
being at second hand. Moses went
up into the high mountain and talked
with God, receiving the law craven on
stone. The classics OF the Greeks and
Romans are just as full as the classics
of the Jews, of stories of supra
natural visions of supernatural beings
1t was in this unscientific mood
that the world received Jesus. 1t
could not recognize any thing divine
inside the range of common vision.
Jesus was God transformed. or re-
veallng himself for brief life in
Galilee. This was the climax of a
superb myth. reaching from the gar
den of Eden to the end of the world,
Alas, Science was born, and the whole
story has been compelled to stand the
test of investigation. We are in just
as earnest and unsatisfactory plight
as before. in our desire to see God.
We refuse to believe that others have
seen him. This was the trouble with
the disciples: they were not quite sat
isfied with looking upon Jesus. Philip
wanted TO see God. Jesus said to him
Have | been so long time with you,
and do you not yet comprehend that
God is in me and l in him. that | am
an expression of the divine life? He
might have said, Philip, do you not
understand that in me YOU see God,
because man is the highest expression
OF the divine life, and the nohlest man
is the manifestation of divine love:
AS Robertson says, The universe is
the body of God" Jesus did not enter
into any abstract explanation. but left
it in the oriental way-"The Father Is
in ME, and | in him" Paul said, In
him we live, and move. and have our
being; for there is no God, over an.
and through all, and in you all.
Prof. Seelye admirably translates this,
"rhere is one God interpenetrating
ALL"
What Jesus taught and what Pam
emphasized in the teaching OF modern
science. that the universe is Siire. net
dead. He who secs in the open dcy
the great green world, or al night the
speaking sky, actually sees and heSrs
God. He is not looking az Il, but AZ
Him. He sees the infinite EXPRESSING
o. en- infinite viii: in the lace q DAY
or in the face Of night he teral'y
looks into the face of God.