Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1909-05-12

SGfM1 teria for few merry ests from the
Il FffNIHaaaN ghhearted jokesmiths though there is
lNlhMWANEM ample for at least smile in the
JCKvSNESN very q scepton OF a human being set
n ,kFEAT%< ting uIAI deyce big enough to attract
IL lH& the attention Of intelligent beings 35-
100000 miles away Mars is to the people on the earth
only red pin point in the unreasonable spaces OF the
upper ether he red planet is it rue only
enh large the pompous spheroid called the earth
yet the latter hardly hope to be than tiny
flicker of light in the vast siderea void But the smile
that begins at the thought Of the portentous hgure the
earth beings imagine they cutting with relation to the
other planets OF the known universe dies at
ecton that human beings should conceive such concept
boldly challenge the mysteries OF the ilmabe void
Something that must forever separate man from the other
animals OF creation his face upward to the heavens
and makes him claim fellowship with the His voice
has gone out across the mighty batemens and the
dephless chasms Of the skies demanding the meaning of
the supendous riddle Of the countless millions Of orbs that
sprinkle the midnight fields of the great blue canopy
With an audacy that is sublime he weighs the spheres in
the balances Of his science and undaunted by the bar
rers OF which the rest OF creation has never even
dreamed he has wandered into the unathomed depths Of
space the magnificent forays Of his genius until he has
charted the OF the air and mapped the heavens
with the landmarks OF countless VOYAGES. That is an
achievement that ought compel the admiration Of Dvin-
ity itself.
Man alone Of all created things has had his face set
toward the stars, and this latest effort establish COM
muncaion is not the only he has ever made. For
countless centuries he has been talking with the stars
He has declared with splendid logic thai has no thought
OF his insgnihance, that it is wonderful that
Mars for instance, should be inhabited and that other
planets should be the home OF senten beings bearing
some analogy human eaures than thai this little globe
should be the only Of all the millions fashioned blythe
same Almighty hand. There is the hint Of profound
sgn6ance in the fact that astroogy closely linked
with the first religions. Crude and rurc was, it was
the tangible bond that held the finite fast tho Of
tie infinite Man puny that he did not in
duee in the splendid egosm that he was part OF the
universe that he was son Of nfnity who could not be
disinheried Even though hishrs conception little
higher than that of the slave forces that had to be propl
aed by sacrifices and appeased by yet he
never conceived the thought that he could by possible
means repudiate the condition in which he lolnd himself
He never wanted to.
AS the centuries passed he did not bow so low and
craduay he came into the full Of sonshp until the
doctrines Of historical religions formulated each ar
rogatng more and Of the prerogaves OF divine re-
ations until they eliminated in the conception OF the
fatherhood Of God and the brotherhood OF Christ which
lis only an apotheoss OF the utter OF all lite with
the God nature in Nrvana.
Manv oroesque variations on this fundamental and in
itye concept have entered into the development Of the
religious instinct in Often individual men and bod
lies of men have assumed powers which basphemous
in their exercise They have locked doors to which they
never really held the keys; they have usurped authority
which was never~theirs; they have been the seconsi-
tuted mouthpeces. of God when no message ever
given into their keeping they have withheld what was
never committed them and have the unhorzoned
love of God within the petty borders Of their own little
creeds. They have done many things which would have
been much more ghabe than the idea OF trying sG
| nal Mars if those things had been cruelty incon-
\ qruous They are doing those things in unhappy
Armenia today and the skies rerbuive hire upon
lhe savage butchers who doing them.
But other red pages in the worlds history have been
turned down and sealed forever and this one will be TOR,
gotten ike the rest when the true lesson Of the stars and
the oneness Of man with oil the handwork Of God has
/ been learned.