The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-10

two worlds is not without authority, for inspiration tells us in Romans that | the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood by the things | that are made, even his eternal power | and Godhead.' Out of this other this | real world. proceed all permanent things, all fragrance, colors, grace,
 dreams, thoughts, affections. Moses, Isaiah, Elijah, John and other of old and of more recent times, have looked into 1t. and Christ said when in the flesh that he consciously dwelt In this
 other, this real world.
 My message to you is that doors into that world remain open always
 It Is away from us only a gray ants pace. a hearts beat of time;' less than thousandths of an inch, and less than throb. It is often harmful to dwell upon instances which lead to ab- normal glimpses or excursions in to that world, for we may be tempted ot blindness for the ever open doorways into it. Only the commonplace, the us- ual is desirable. Gods commonplacG way is the most divine. Only the Greeks seek for signs, and seekin z condemn themselves.
 'I once said to a professor of mathe- matics, with whom had some intima- cy. I am sorry for you poor mathe- ticians, you are doomed to the cold, dead, material figures which dumbly' assure us that two and two are four. He answered. You speak only of the beginnings of mathematics. of its roots. At the top his face began to shine, it flowers out into beauty in the very face of God
 Scientists, holding to their gospel of mud, ss rugged Thomas Carlyle said, began borrowing into the ground. each specialist in his own in- dependent way. when they came up- ward following s,ome vein of truth. they broke into light. and were con strained to whisper the same word.
 God Newton discovered law which unfolded many laws, which togethe 2 struck a harmonious chord, and re- vealed an almighty Personality. The laboratories of our greatest universi- ties are fast be- omtng glorious pull pits.
 Poetry Is a wide open doorway. The true poet is a seer. a prophet.
 He folds back matter and reveals to our quickening hearts that which trembles and throbs; which blossoms and sends forth fragrance; which rip- ems into character and achievements.
 The birth of the poet is the principal event in chronology About them there ShOne the llSnl IHdl never WdS on sea or land. They went far afield through tine open doorways. caught up visions of the sublime, the heroic. the beautiful, the divine. clothed then in ringing numbers and bequeathed them to us as guide books through the open doors into the world of real ities.
 .The artist is the poet in action. Painting sculpture, architecture, are the methods of work of the seer. The real artist claims closest kinship anS relationship with the ilfe-currents which create things.
 He knows that metter in influx. is the subservient servant If Spirit. As heat when poured into gold makes 1t await the fashion of the designer. so the | hlock of marble awaits the artists spirit-vision to assume the expression | of an angel The architects sees tho
 stones of the field, which come togeth-
 CT and bind themselves in a temple.
 The poet-artist Is at home only in the
 real world and is himself guide and example to us all.
 l Music is the language of the other
 side. Words stumble in their awkward
 efforts to express thoughts; But music
 reveals the deepest emotions. It tells out the thoughts which are too deep for tears. Carlyle says Rage if intense enough turns to chanting. There is mu- | sic at the heart of all sounds. The spheres do sing an anthem of praise, the Masters of music are the rators of the other world. They en"hant us to q forgetting of the outside of things and kindle within us a homesickness for the real. Music comes to us out
 of the gurgle of the brook, the cooine