Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1918-01-10
THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN
Much That Cannot Be Explained or
Understood-People Have to Look
On From the outside.

ITO speak frankly, uncle, can't
bring myself to bank much on n world
that's all out Of sight," said Howard
CranstOn with jaunty declsiveness. II
think I can understand the point of
view Of the Bible-just little, any
how. 1t was the natural thing to walk
by faith in those days, for there wasn't
much else you could walk by. The
primitive mind peoples the shadows
with supernatural powers, but science
has let In so much light that there
aren't many shadows left. That's why
faith seems to me like an anachr0n.
ism. The only way to keep 1t untouched
{ Is to get back to the old, forgotten
point of view. and look out on the
world just as If nothing had been
learned In the last thousand years OF
MORE"
II was thinking about Culver this
morning." Doctor Gresham said, anG
his nephew raised his eyebrows in
quiringly ut the sudden g Soi
r0T'Tc' Inere inrissut,arc viuri q
streak in Culver somewhere, although
| was his chum In college four years
and never suspected 1t. He was one
of the half dozen fellows In our class
whom | expected TO make their mark
In the world. lie dldn't-as you know.
i've talked with some Of his intimate
friends. but I've never been able TO dis
cover the reason. And yet there must
We reason-one of those subtle. in.
tangible things that seem often to
make or unmake life, but that the
ieen probe of science can't quite
reach"
u begin to see what you're aiming
W." There was an accent of constraint
IN the young voice. "Of course there's
I lot we can't explain or understand.
We're handicapped by having to look
on from the outside"
Tie doctor nodded.
again" lie said, 'there's n whole
world open TO you as an educated man
mat has no existence for Jerry Lomax.
IT'S not only open to you, but you've
entered into 1t, and. In a measure nos
sessed 1t. It's very real TO you. and
you've found 1t engrosslng and enjoy.
able. You haven't doubt about This
world Of thought as we may call II
being Just MS real MS the grosser world
OF sense perception. And yet you'd
md 1t hard TO convince Jerry that
there Is such a thing. The words
wouldn't mean anything to him. He'd
have to go In mt the basemeut door and
climb mp, step by step, to where Won
stand before he'd understand.
II remember the case of an old lodv
q patient of mine, who was as sure of
the love of God MS you are OF the law
of gravitatlon. She'd been bed.rid.
den invalid for 10 years, but she had
lived so close to God that every doubt
mad vanished. She didn't have to get
back to the old, forgotten point of
view, or make q shadow laud for her /
God to dwell In, or forget the wonder
full things that have happened since
the Bible was written. She Just found
"od sometime when she especially (
needed him, perhaps, and then kept
close ut his side till she came to know |
Iim' have often thought that Gods
presence was just as real to her as
NINE was-posslbly more so. That's
when first began to see that l was nm
outsider. | was u protesting Chris
lian, but l hadn't got into the inner
circle"
one can't afford to miss a whole
world and think 1t isn't there, lf-if
me fault Is all with his own eyeslrht.p
.ne young man replied soberly.-
Youths Companion.