Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-29

they tried to throw discredit on the
fac itself and ON the teacher by say
ing that he did it by magic or by the
aid of spirits. And when they appeal
ed to the man himself who had been
blind for an explanation of it. he SIM
ply said that he had been blind be-
fore, but now l see," And thu,
teacher in the course of the contro-
yersy, declared that his profession
was light, illumination.
The difference in sight in different
individuals is not because one has
blue eyes and another black; not be-
cause one has large eyes and another
small ones. The difference arises
from ones point of view, the trend OF
his vision, and the clearness, the
sharpness and the scope of his sight.
Two men travel together, but they
see different things. Two artists
paint the same landscape, but their
pictures are not the same. They sat
down in different places. Two men
climbed Pennsylvania mountain to-
lgether. One declared it to be the
finest view he had had. The other
one said it was the most unproductiye
soil in the state.
The vital difference is not in what
men see, but rather what they see in
it. The quality of a person is not
evident in his sight, but in his in
sight; not in what things he sees,
but in the Interpretation of what he
beholds; in the comprehension of the
mind that discerns it.
! True sight, therefore, is not sight
at all, but it is insight; not what one
sees with the eye, but what. he dis
Germs with the mind, not what one
beholds stupidity, but what one discov-
ers mentally: not the image of trivial
things but the significance of the
vital facts.
There is one man who knows where
every person in his community was
born, who his grandfather was, who
are his kinsfolk, and his age. But he
does not discover the relative moral
value of his neighbors, neither can
he use them in doing things for his
community.
There Is another man who sees
that your fence Is not on the survey
ed line, sees that the shingles on
your roof are rotting and that your
premises are full of strange weeds.
But he does not notice that neither
| his fence, roof nor premises is not an
example to his neighbors of either
/ beauty, taste or charm.
! But Alcott, the friend of Emerson
and Longfellow, before large gather
ing of young men and women, could
see poets, sculptors, orators, statesmen
and soldiers. BY sight he beheld
their faces; by insight their careers.
Anybody might have seen in that
company, handsome young women,
fine looking young fellows. Alcott
could see the stuff that was in them
and knew the making of illustrious
men and women.
To see the most and the best, to
see all that there is to see, one must
add attention and intelligence. To
be profitable the eyes require the in
vestment of mind and heart, intellect
and sympathy, disinterestedness and
devotion. Seeing is good deal like
business or commerce. and one gets
profit out of 1t in proportion to what
he puts into it. When Gaiileo invent
ed the telescope and by it discovered
the moons Of Jupiter there were
those who claimed that they could
see the moons with the naked eye.
But they had never seen the moons
before. 1t took Calico to teach the
the world that something must be
added to sight before we could see
them. He added lenses to the eye.
But before that he added the imagina-
ton of genius, and then he began to
look for the moons of Jupiter It is
said that there are those now who can
see them with the naked eye But
they have added thought, Imagination
and intense conservation. 1t is in
the nature of an investment. The
scholar must put something into sight
IL he expects to winnow the heavens
for moons and stars and suns, and
systems of heavenly bodies.
The real object of this parable OF
sight is to arouse men and women to
the cultivation Of sight All may not
have 1t alike in the beginning of the
race of life, but all have eyes, all have
minds. The very business of exist.
ence is cultivation, training educa.
ton. II is the unfolding. educing,
bringing out what the Creator has in
vested in his creation. 1t has occur.
. red great many times that those
who have been handicapped in the be-
ginning. who have been excessively
dull, been short-sighted, have In the
end outstripped their companions and
been counted among the good and
the illustrious. There is nothing equal
to vision and the wealth of the eye
and the mind. From the top of enc
, OF the old mountains in the same
, country with this eastern city, the
) Young teacher who healed tho Hind