The Washington times., 1918-01-26
Can We Hope to Understand Go

Is there laughter in heaven-or nothing move the
eternal heavenly calm?
mirth exists among the perpetuay bissfu how must
the angels laugh when in idle moments they listen to
specuatons concerning the Divinity? They peer down at
US as we look at ants dragging home fragment OF dead
caterpillar They hear say things like this:
If God exists why does he not reveal himself to me?
How could God exist before he created the world?
Force cannot exist demonstrate its existence without mat
him? ..
Where did He live before he made heaven?
If He is au-powerful, could He in five seconds make
six months old calf? If He made in five seconds it would
Nonsense more subtle comes from the educated from
those who know enough to be preposterous in pretenous
way
God not exist because prove His existence
can prove everything else. With my law of gravtation
point to speck in space and say: You find planet
there and you find it. If God existed could not also
point to Him? If trace comet in its fight, could
not trace the comets maker?
Huxley says: "The cosmic process has sort Of re-
ation 20 moral ends That's philosophers way of say
ing something foolish Laande the astronomer remarked
found God there That's unner than any ant who should
say 1ve searched this whole dead caterpillar and found
God there God" The of space which
telescopes sweep is smaller compared to the universe
than dead caterpillar compared with this earth.
MoleSchOtt an able Psychologist believed that phos-
phorus essential mental activity Perhaps he did
prove that But he said o thought without phosphorus
and thought he had wiped the human soul out Of existence
Philosophers do not laugh at Moleschott But they would
81 have discovered that there is catgut in fiddle No
fiddle without catgu-no music without cats Don't talk to
me about soul or musical genius-it's all catgut."
We peek out at this universe from half developed
corner Of it. We family the millions Of huge
crcng with their planet families billions of miles away
We little rise and set; ask ourselves
thousand foolish questions and Rue-and because
we cannot answer, we decry faith.
Wise doubter look at small piece of iron. It looks
solid You suppose that its various parts touch But sub
NIT it to cold You make it smaller Then the particles did
not touch Do they touch now? No. relatively they
farther apart than this planet from its neghbor
What there solid about iron? Nothing in reality except
look through it. Forces such heat and electricity pass
through it more readily than through free air.
Science, which gradually finds things out denying
along everything step beyond tells you truly that
the clusters Of atoms in iron float in of ether just
do planets going round the Heat the iron intensely
What happens? You get what you call white heat The
white heat and the white light from the increase of
motion in this ether and this ether absolutely impon
derabe Of tenuy nconcevabe possesses elasticity great
er and more powerful than that Of coled steel.
So much for one small piece of iron such as you would
kick to side in junk heap If it interests you read
pages 159 to 1872 Of John Fskes admirable little book
Through Nature Cod You will finish the book the day
II you are surprised to learn how much you did not
know about ron-afer living bits of iron all your life
is it just possible that your mind may be feeble to
conceive Of God?
For the fly buzng about the edge of Niagara Falls the
falls do not exist The s brain cannot grasp their gran
deur understand only the speck of spray that falls
on its wing
You live with God around you hopelessy incapable of
perceng His existence through that faint spark Of
unconscious faith that mercfuly planted in you Snuff
that ont with dull efforts at and you have nothing