The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-04-09
The Distant Sky Line.

visible city in his minds eye.
The Distant Sky Line. IT,.
He went out Fine responsiveness
to that phrase. 1t pushes out our
horizon to touring peaks and distant
sky line. John Wesley went out from
the established church. Martin Luther
from the mother church, the pilgrims
from their fatherland. He goes faf-
thest who doesn't know where he is 60
ing. The vaulted heavens used to de-
clare the glory of God; now they are
astronomical. Each star is charted
and named The earth was Gods
footstool 1t is now mapped out geo.
graphically, both poles are fonnd. no
lands unknown. Man used to be the
temple of the Holy Spirit, but one of
the recent psychological textbooks says
not. The soul has been pursued along
the nerves up the spinal column
and has been cornered in the brain
centers. When the biologist and tue
psychologist got there it was like the
explorers at the north pOle-there
wasn't any. Modern novels are real
istic too. That is the reason they
die. SCOTS novels made every man
possible king. The Bible also says,
Now are we the sons of God" The
difference between n romance and a
novel is. the former gives more scope
for imagination and idealiZat ton, ell
larges the frontier. Columbus sets
covered continent is ON his sky line.
The worldlywise laughed and glffawed.
They always do. They always will
We live in two worlds-one i'm which
we can see. hear and touch: the other
invisible, inaudible, intangible Homes
are not made by bricks and stone. but
by faith. hope and love Love in Il
cottage beats hate in Il palace Not H.
5raries and laboratories make school.
but the spirit of the faculty. Plato's
school was in a grove at Athens. The
invisible makes nations, not armies
and navies. not factories. railroads and
banks
1t is that same invisible quality that
makes commercial prosperity pos
sibIe, 1t is built on credit Credit is
our faith in the honesty of others. and
honesty is invisible 1t has neither
form. color nor sound. We live in IA
world of invisible personalities, bound
together by invisible bonds. We do
not even see each other-onIy bodies
What makes an athlete? Bone. muscle,
sinew? No: spirit The orchestra does
not make music. only conveys it. as il
telephone wire conveys messages. A
library is not literature. only series
Of symbols. Even the Bible as :, book
Is only an instrument, vehicle. In
~ the figures are only symbols
The invisible is the real.
The Unseen Pilot.
The dreams the thing. Action fol-
lows after. To be faithful to the dream
| marks greatness. Abrams journey
looks easy now. The Imperator might
| curl its lip ut the feat of the Santa Ma
ria. The latter was going it knew not
whittier. When the transalpine chill
dren started under the call of the wan
derlust southeast from Holland, south
west from the Danube. they met and
swept over Italy. Goths and vandals:
Yes, but they gave their new fresh
blood to Rome. Some went back to
England, Germany and Scandinavia
with the seeds of Christianity. The
pilgrim fathers went out they knew
not whittier. but an invisible pilo.
stood on the Prov OF the Mayfiowei
The Man of Nazareth also went fort
under that splendid impulse and sci
his face steadfastly toward Jerusalem.
For this purpose was l born The
babe that came to your home will feel
the drawing toward what end-an ora-
tor. statesman. who can tell? Every
soul at death starts out on that Jour
ney into an unknown eternity dark
and trackless. The soul is migratory
bird. The lure of the unknown draws
him he knows not whittier.