The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-12
THE SENSE OF PROPORTION.
That Faculty Which Enables us to pI
Evarythinu in Its Place,

Everything in Its Place.
Rev. Lyman r. Hartley in the Net
York Herald: Psychologists have al
ded to the five senses a sixth-appeI
ception. We might add a seventh
the sense of proportion. In water then
is nothing so necessary as gills AM
fins and in the air as lungs and wingl
In this world of time and space quinl
essential is the sense of proportion.
With our God given power of min
we can put things where we wiz
either in the foreground or backgroun|
of our consciousness. We can enlara
them under the magnifying lens of oa
Imagination or we can minimize the1
by willful forgetting. 1t Is our SEM
of proportion that directs these actl
tiles Of the mind.
The world suffers for its undevelol
ed sense OF proportion. UnendoWd
with it, ministers will take their pTl
cious half hours once week to y
wilder the uncomprehending minds
their congregation with dissertatio1
on the original sin, virgin birth, prl
destination and the seven horses sea-
| and trumpets of Revelation-all IN
/ to the exclusion of advice, comfort az
inspiration for the other six days
the week with which Jesus fllled n|
parallels and sermons. Many OF y
isms and schisms today, seeml1
dwellings on the strong right arm
religion. are necessary sineWs OF 81
structive belief, pulled and swollen /
cause the nerve Of proportion is oeaI
Troubles are overwhelming on
when our sense of proportion is out
gear. I'VE only need to set the o
Annoying circumstance over AGAIN.
all the rest of life to perceive us ils
nit1cant proportions" says brle'
When the artist paints a picture
gets full arm and brush length aN'|
When we observe most pictures
must be at a distance. In my din1
room hangs one Of broadway on
Rainy Might" sketched by slh1
friend Of mine. Close up it is ns11
of ugly blotches, but from across i
room they all soften into their p,'.l
and I see a cab, cable car ana y
wet, shimmering. tree lined sus1
God, the great artist, works at oul \
on the scale of a thousand years
but day. We must get his Vle"pv,|
if the rough places are to become pia1
and the crooked ways straight.
Tha. ueath. a tragedy OF the hun
life, becomes a triumph OF the nun !,
soul. War-even tn great ~ar..|
means the characterization Vi
world, the advance of science anu
capitalization of world conse .iOr
ness in the place Of national cons.n
ness, is kindly stroke or the n.' ~
Ipainter's brush. The consequ,e,n' no
preston of alcohol alone VIII INV
than balance the loss Of man pow"
a few years. nd
It is only as we have an ann ,,d IL
a measuring rod, a scale OF ulos
that we can keep proper senS
proportion. / know Of no Det'e s,,;Sr
politically or socially, for the inui m IN
or the world than the ideal OF me ~,
dom of God as portrayed by ine
teacher, Jesus. If we can ie", ,sac
compare our actions with the Al
ling of his sermon on the noun
taking his model prayer calie sob a
Lords Prayer, between our thu his NJ
finger, as the art student does ii sosrI
Gil. measure off our hopes anu . u,i
we will be "fitly framed i.b Al
along the height and preaSa raetsl
length and depth of our enc"
even as was the master.