Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1911-12-28
[ THE SIZE OF | THE WORLD
 By Rev. William Spiegel of the Old First Church. Cincinnati.


 of this world and the other material worlds of the universe vary in their apparent dimensions with the vary rg capacities of physical, mental and imaginative eyesight.
 A given individuals world and all there therein is will always vary in ac- cordance with that individuals subjec tive proportions
 In very real and deep sense every one builds his own world. Some build it exceedingly small and others, with 2 better grasp of the meaning of life, build it big And l would that we 2 'ght all have that broad conception which not only means big world for us. but the doing of big things in 1t by ourselves. We all deli"ht in the master minds that are doing the big things in the material world, and they are truly great; but greater than these wonderful feats of engineering skill which can tunnel the Hudson or dam the Ohio are those otfer deeds by mas ter minds whe~ aby this world is made the better-the more nearly perfect
 It is this aspect of increasing the size of our world, the moral and spir- itual, to which I would draw attention Obviously. then, our world varies in size according to our knowledge. Any thing that lies outside of our knowl- edge is evidently no part of our con scious world We have widened the boundaries of the little world of the ancients and have accurately meas ured and weighed 1t
 We have found some hing Of the magnitude of the other worlds of the universe and commute distances in in terstellar space in years Of light ve locity. And this inconceivably h'g world Of ours has a vast influence upon our thoughts and life The great CT our knowledge the bigger orr world; and the Christian eereciarv should '-eep his mind alert and alive to this growing world and ever strive to build 1t on a larger scale and f'l 1t with greater meaning
 Then, too our world grows with our interests. This is even a c'oser re D.
  concern. participation. TNere are nec- essarily large areas of know'efee which lie outside of our interest. but as interest lays hold of us and con trols thought, motive and con@"ot ou~ world is large or small accord'rg to the area of our interest IT. this re spect people differ tremendously
 The interest of a great many neorle in the material things is so great thot it absorbs their whole thought. ambi tion and action; and a world whose absorbing interests are in material things, however great its business and however immense it's wealth, ia es- sentially small and insignificant The man in the big world is the one who Is thoroughly interested in his business or profession, but whose interests also reach out into the worlds of science. literature, art, politics, social progress. | education and religion.
 Then again our world enlarges with | our sympathies. Sympathy is closer still than interest, as 1t involves Onr | hearts. People who lack sympathy live l in a small barren world, but those | who have wide and warm sympathies | melt easily into the lives of others and | thus enlarge and enrich their own world. And in our sympathies we ought to be bigger than the mere cir cle of our own friends, our church or our country. Whoever cuts another human Ooirg out Ot ms sympathy Dy so much narrows and impoverishes his own world, and by as much as we make our sympathies broad and tender we enlarge our world and make 1t rich
 Finally let us ever remember with the psalmist, "The earth is the Lords and the fuIlness thereof" That lifts 1t into divine relations and worth. From this point of view we see the world falling fresh from the creative hand of God, developing under his providence, redeemed by his grace and being rebuilt even in our day, into a universal kingdom of brotherhood and love We are co-workers with him and are now building this new and better world, however insignif1- cant or dark, in the light of his plan and presence, and this fills our world with divine purpose and grace.
 Our world thus widens out until it Is lost in the full splendor of God and Is great with his greatness.
 Thus our world is little or big. ac- ,ording to our knowledge. interest, sympathy and faith, and by increas- ng these we enlarge and enrich our world. A big soul will build a big world. One of large vision and wide