The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
NATURES MOVIES
Open Your Eyes and See The Won
Christian Advocate
l. r. Cab. Tuo. ALOYA Va,

Christian Advocate
ders of Gods Creation About You
Of the millions who attend the
moving picture shows every twenty
four hours, vast numbers can hardly
be censured. When a working nan by
walking a block and paying fifteen
cents, can pass from the drabbest of
surroundings into the realm of TO-
nance and adventure; when a woman
whose day is filled with drudgery
within four dreary walls can spend
her evening among the wind-washed
mountains or in the palaces of roy
atty; when children can exchange the
company of ash cans and ill-smelling
alleys for that of fairies and pirates
and princes, there is small wonder that
they accept the opportunity with
avidity.
There are millions of others, how
ever, whose cases are not so clear.
When they go to the movies-especi-
ally at this time of the year-they do
not choose between hideous reality
and p~leasurable dreams. They choose
the questionable delights of man.
made entertainment instead of the UNI
utterable JOY Of intimate acquaintance
with Gods universe. They shut
themselves up to have their already
overworked emotions stirred by lml-
tation tragedy or comedy While the
heavens above. the earth beneath and
the waters under the earth TEEN with
life that delights the soul of him who
takes time to see it. God runs the
greatest moving picture show ever
known, and admission is absolutely
free. .
Take the flowers. for instance. Most
of us know that there are such things
and can identify the daisies and the
buttcrcups when we see them. But
how many of US know them? AS a
matter Of fact. there is more to be
g in a backyard garden than the
average motorist sees in a hundred
mile ride. TO a real lover Of flowers
a clump of perennials contains new
glories every day from April to DC
tober.
The birds and the insects are more
marvellous still, because the hunt Tor
them involves the excitement OF the
chase. a nature lover came home
trembling with JOY because a half
DAVIS patient toll rewarded him with
a fine view of a scarlet tanger. And
most movie attendants would be sur
prised to learn that a closeup OF
many of the moths reveals more
splendors than a sunset over 81:
Peters in Rome. In her delightful
story. Slippy MCGEE, the author would
have us believe that a manned and
vicious criminal was transformed into
A genuine nobleman by the gift of a
moth from a child. The chubby hand
pushed open for him the gate of a new
world into which he strobe with ever
increasing wonder and awe. David Is
by no means the only man who has
been brought to a knowledge Of God
through a vision of Him in His works.
The tragedy of life is that so many
are voluntarily blind to the wonders
of the world we live in. William
Beebe begins his exquisite essay, "A
Jungle Beach" with the interesting
statement, "A jungle moor first show,
ed me my beach. For a week l had
looked at it in blazing sunlight, walk
ed across it, even sat on it in the in
tervals of getting wonted to the new
laboratory; yet a not perceived
it. When | could no longer see
the beach | began to discern its signi-
fcance."
Jesus words, then, Lift up your
eyes and see," are deserving of the
widest Interpretation and application.
TO learn to see things-Or, as Theo-
dore Roosevelt preferred to put it,
to perceive them-and then to tell
what we have seen, might not make
us John Ruskins or Henry Drum
monds, but it would enrich u lives,
improve our tastes, and make us bet
ter citizens of the world which God
made for our habitation. If we open
ed u eyes, we, too, could see the
angel in the sun.