Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-11
GUMPTION, H'a~
Which is plain Common Sense in United States
language, without Educational Furbelows.
BV l.. Il. HOVERMALE.
The Eyes are the Windows of the Soul.
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The Eyes are the Windows of the Soul.
Scientists claim that object has color OF itself, but
that they the different hues according to the way
in which they receive and reflect the rays of light The
soul of man looks out upon the things of life and sees the
world in the light that his soul is inclined. The human
eye is obscurathe Photographic camera is pat
termed after the human eye the and crystalline lens
corresponding to the lens of the and the rena to
the groundglass There this difference, however, that
the is recinear and the eye is not The camera
will faithfully reproduce rght-ange lines and all the de-
tails in its field while the eye singles out only such things
as the will directs. The light that falls on the object en-
abes both the eye and the camera to get the image.
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Just the retna Of the eye picks out and asserts the
details of the image it holds and transmits them to the
brain as the will directs the soul looks forth upon
ua state of mankind and vsualzes it according to the
promptings of his own nature. The healthy happy child
looks forth the world and sees only the play and JOY
BUSINESS in life because his soul is overfoyng with joy.
The ptmst looks out and hope sheds her soft light
this old world and he sees the good in and watches
the world grow better and BETTER The pessimst in view
ing the lives sees only the sordd and mean He refuses
to the wonderful works for good that being done by
the church and kindred organizations. The rea genuine
Christian has faith in the power of the gospel and believes
that the strength Of God is greater than that of the devil
out and seesits own reflection Honi soft qui NAL pence
Color is determined by the length of the light waves
and the good bad in the world is measured by each in
dvdua according to his standard of life The grass
green not because it has color but because it
fleets the light in certain waveengths The world is bad
or good to according to the light soul throws
out upon it. Tho world is magic mirror that gives back
to us the image of our own character.
1t is not my contention that there is not evil, much
evil in the world, but do contend that Christianity and
goodness growing and increasing, and that notwith
standing the world catacy ysm convusng civilization
the world is growing better In fact the effect of the
war will be for good despite the present horrors of its
mage and destruction The world will be won for democ-
racy and the people sobered and chasened and humbed
by the awful experiences they have undergone The
itself of the agencies to bring about the beterment
of humanity. 1t will have moved up civilization century
by the reforms it has forced. World prohibition of the
liquor traffic generation account of the
war; and other great reforms have been accomplished
While it is impossible to tell the percentage of the ind
vdual advancement, we can detect the trend toward
better things by the growth of the great forward move
ments that could not grow without upward progress r
the Individual Church extension work, foreign missions
and kindred works greater in their scope than
FORE and this state of affairs could not prevail with the
world growing worse.
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AS our own hearts are good or evil so we look upol
the world. There is no stationary state in mans life; h
is either growing better or worse If man is growing
worseletng the passions of greed, ambition selshnes
and immortality crowd the nobler impulses out of his sou
it is nconcevabe that he could the good around him
He the world it is mirrored in his own characte
and habits The who growing in grace sees the la
tent good in humanity and believes the constant upft
Because he is growing better he sees the possibility of tn
Improvement Of his fellow creatures.
To digress bit, few days ago it was said to me,
rather in my presence for my benefit that some people
would rather kick people down than hold themup sui
nit my life and my public writings in evidence that hav
ever been on the side Of mercy and forgiveness hav
fearessy denounced wrong whenever felt that it Wa
my duty to do so, but have ever advocated extendn
the uphodng hand to the errng when they are truly
pentant, but do not endorse that qualification of col
science that uphods" the repentan sinner in the COZ
tinuation of awlessness The boy who is upheld" in
waywardness is doomed There is no record of Divir
forgiveness until the person repented and repentance
+nrn;no from sin or Sam .Tonec antv avnrooood