Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1918-03-08
THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN
Much That Cannot Be Explained or
understood-PeopIe Have TO Lock
On From the Outside.

'"To speak frankly. uncle. / can't
bring myself to bank much on world
that's all ont Of sight said Howard
Cranston with jaunty decisiveness. Il
think ! can understand the point OF
view OF the Bible-just n little, any
how. II 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. bur science
has let in so much hight that there
aren't many shadows left. That's why
F faith seems to me like an anachron-
Ism, The only way to keep il untouched
Is 10 get back To The old. forgotten
point of view and look out on the
world just as IL nothing had been
learned in the last thousand years or
more
Il was thinking about cnlyera this
norning." Doctor Gresham said. and
bis nephew raised his eyebrows In
auringly an the sudden ehanee Of
topic. There must have been a weak
streak IN Culver somewhere. although
4 WAS his ehnm in college four years
and never suspected H.. He was one
OF the half dozen fellows In our class
Whom I expected % make their mark
F in The world. lie didn't--as you know
I've talked with some Of his intimate
friends. hut I've never been able e. dis
cover the reason. And yet there must
be a reason-one Of those subtle. in.
tangible things that seem often 10
make or unmaee life. bur thar The
keen probe of science can't quite
reach"
f 4 begin 10 see what You're aiming
{ at" There was an accent ~ consfraint
/ IN the young voice. .sOf course there's
. lot we can't explain or understand.
Were handicapped by having to look
on from the outside"
The doctor nodded
'Again." he said. ''iheres whole
+ world open to You as an educated man
that has no existence for Jerry Lomax.
lis not only open Ia You. hut you've
entered into II. and, ia measure. pos
sessed II. It's very real TO YOU. and
you've found IL engrosslng and enjoy
able. You haven't doubt about this
world OF thought. n We may call Il
being Just as real as the srosser world
OF sense perception. And YET you'd
find II hard TO convince Jerry that
there is such thing. The words
wouldn't mean anything TO him. He'd
have TO 90 In at the basement door aud
climb up. step by step. 10 where you
stand before he'd understand
II remember the case of an old lady.
n patient of mine. who was a. sure OF
the love Of God as you are Of the law
Of grayitation. she'd been bed.rid.
den invalid for II Years. hut she had
lived So close 90 God that every Doubt
had vanished. She dida't have 10 get
back TO the old. forgotten point of
view. or make a shadow land for her
God tosdwell In. or forget the wonder
fal things that have happened since
The Bible WIS written. slc just found
God sometime when she especially
necded him. perhaps. and then kept
close at bis side I'LL she came to know
him i have often Thought that Gods
presence was just rs real 10 her as
mine was-pOssibly more So. Thafs
when first began to see liar was an
outsider. | WAS "a protesting Chris,
tan. bnt ] hadn't got into Tie inner
circle"
one can't afford "a miss whole
world, and think IL isn't there. IF
the fault Is III with his oWn eyesi CHIT. =
the young man replied sobefly.--
Youths Companion.