The Penn's Grove record., 1907-01-04
UMBT 20.

On The theme "V.ai91.' the Rev. I
henderson. pastor, toCk rs his
te1lt Ea. 1853 "Gp3a Thou nine
eyes Tie said
of an ae oh. steal gifts which We
nave received at The had and BY the
graca Of 2 loYilB Father the natural
eye. gtt is the test. What q blessed
bastcWNl If -s. 7 Fancy Clac most Il
js had Te 4. Civ up any Of IT,
senses womb r~sitnruis1 the sense a
slE1t last. Most 1f is. 7 believe
Would lose all our otGer faculties be-
fore tbs one Tie eyes reveal to rs
L4e animate world. They are the
windows out hi wntch We look mon
tle universe 1f God. With them Va
stuay ta5 1anatv1rk o. Jehovah 10
nature ana IL human kind. Through
tR0m re search the wonders CT the
heaven and view the bri-.tent Beau
Aes OF tue paintings Of Gcd n sky
n cloud, n hlll and yaIe. In wood
land, stream In lake and sen.
The eyes are for use They grow
strong and acute md increase N.
ROVER Of d-.5aernment by exercise
alone. Visual f~ecllity is the result
OF visual activity. Thetnan Who
does not. N cannot, use MS ewes.
sooner or later loses the faculty @
vision The poor prisoner in the
donJon keep. with Only darkness for
Companionsnip ana With no consola-
ton save the SLOW approaching hand
o. Death, after years Of dark conhne-
nent and of torture hideous and
m~addening, loses the power to see
Seeing is not looking. Many peo-
pie look who never see. They look
upon things, but they rarely see into
things. Their eyes catch visions, but
they rarely pierce beneath the sur
face. Many people look at things,
they cast their eyes upon things, but
they dc not see.
Seeing is q discipline. Looking is
q habit OF the lax. To see we must
cultivate the power of perception.
We must school ourselves to look be-
yOnG the superficial 10 the eternal IN
deTIy'1g realities. And because they
iacl perception. because their eyes
have net been opened, because they
do not possess through exercise, the
ability 10 fi~ffareutiate, to discern, to
Perceive clearly, many people really
% ROT Zee. 1t was not until the clear
NAJAOh - q EkuDh III oL1ONEu 10 TIE LHE
purple haze at sunset that l learned
70 know and love the ~darkening beau
y Of The hills.
Those who have used their eyes are
the worlds greatest men. LAS one Of
our lsest teachers has said, the
sIeatest thing 2 human soul ever
does in this world, is to see some
thing, and % tell what it saw in a
nlatn way. Hundreds of people can
talk, for oue who can think. But
thousands can think for one who can
5eei 70 see clearly is poetry, prophecy
and religion, all in one. Therefore,
ending the world of literature more
Or less divided into thinkers and
seers. / believe We shall find also,
thaC The seers are wholly the greater
race Of the two" For, as Dr.. Hills
Las said greatness 10 vision" I
fancy thls manT c man had bathed
u 2 tug before Archimedes. at his
bath, discovered the eternal fact Of
the displacement OF bodies ard for
mulated The truth of displacement
Into law. Multitudes OF men IN
Que5doIably gaEed upward into the
heavenly armament and studied the
movement Of the heavenly spheres
before Copernlcus; but It remained
tor ain, with the seeing We, to re-
veal to humanity the underlying prin-
tlples Of the celestial g~alaXies New
ION was not the first man NhO had
watched an apple fan from 2 leafy
boughi but he vas the irsC one who
really saw tie apple fall. Other men
had seen 1T and had not been by it
Impressed Newton used has eyes
aud to Us vas given The law Of gravi
tsI1n. Columbus was not the first
man who stood upon the shores of
Portugal ard watched the ships sail
Aut FIRST over the horizcn's edge. into
aha unknown bosom Of the sea. but
It'll lie disappearing 7essel Columbus
saw he prophecy or the Totundity
Of ths earth. Iultitudes Of kettles
ST diverse form had steamed on
many q hearth before the days Of
Watts, but only Watts saw the loco
motive 51 me wasted. superheated
Taplr With 8 kite and 2 string
nu4y a boy and nauV q mal had
wiled away the pleasant hours; but
Z was not until Frarkli1, with a pre-
vision born Of application, sent his
IRAN sEy-cfaft up into he clouds that
tle wonder OF electricity became re-
allied Eo men. Darwin, Wallace aad
a sassl dalgine Into the mysteries as
well as the su~perlc;aIties of natural
life, were not the first 70 gaze uron
ahe animal life that is teemlng
couli about us, but they were me
ir4t to understand, with insight and
clear vision the bandiwork Of GOO
therein. II IS said that Henry lard
6eecher could see and reveal more
beauty in the top Of q head of celery
t1an the average man IS able to dis
Germ i'm the full-Dloom beauty If the
rose. Yes greatness Is vision"
TIE world needs discernment. That
Is tn say it needs seeing eyes. 1t
needs 10 cult ate the habit and the
faculty Of perception. This 5 true
ia The intellectual, in the civic and
tLa spiritual world, not to mention
others.
WE need vision In the intellectual
HE. TOO great iusistency cannot be
laid upon the need for clear-cut. DEF
mite, i1cisiye thinking. We cannot
ford rs men Cr as a society TO do
less than Cultiy ate our powers Of in
tellectuai discernm2nt 20 the full. II
WYE ere 10 have 2 theory of kncwl-
edge which shall be valid, il we
are ~ nave a wise statement OF the
underlying principles Of life. we must
have men who, with keen Intelligence
and with provision extraordinary,
snail be able 10 analyza their exneri-
encas and ours, ano give to humanity
. philosophy which shall explain. as
Wal5 as re founded upon, the facts
"a 4-v n man cpfsFeOrae All n1-o~