Arizona republican., 1922-04-17


which appeals to the adventurous
spirits. It is like walking down the
streets of some strange new foreign
city alert to see what is around the
next corner. what new sight will
greet your eyes there.
And the pity of it is that so many
people lose just that sense OF the ad-
venturesomeness the freshness OF
life. This dull, faded thing, this life
which has gotten terribly into a rut
can it be the same bright vivid
thing which was mine in youth" they
ask. They know what Wordsworth
means:
There was time when meadow,
grove and stream,
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a
dream.
1t is not now as it hath been of
For now flower is just a flower,
Man, bird, beast, but beast, bird,
man,
Uncinct by dover of dies
That when life's youth began,
Round each in glory ran
We need to beware, almost above
everything else, of losing our sense
of the freshness, the vividnesS, the
adventuresomeness of life.
Life, I said, has way of under
mining our security. The wealth in
which a man trusts, for which he has
labored all of his days. which was
the one sure thing in his environ
ment, that upon which he builds his
future; his wealth one day is sud
denly taken away from him: the Sc
curity of life is gone. Life has forced
him out upon a new adventure, has
called upon him to leave his known
moorings and set sail upon new sea.
On the other hand life upon which
one had counted, the life that summed
up life, the life to which one had
given his love; the life that was one
sure thing-the only sure and certain
thing in the mans life,-something
stretches out its hand and touches
that life and it is taken away from
the man.
And all the security of his life is
gone. He too is forced out upon
unknown seas. Or mans health
or a mans convictions or any one of
a number of things, which have given
a sense of security to man, are
touched by some whitening hand and
security is gone. Or life opens up
to a man a new door with new sue
cesses. new opportunities, new posi-
bilities and again leaving his known
moorings he must set sail across a
sea, the end of which he cannot see.
Life has a way of doing just that
sort of thing. And the thing that now
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for more than anything else in the
world is a guide, some one who knows
the way, some one who has been
there before; some one who bears the
marks of life on his body, some one
who can direct US.
Very often the tragedy of life is
that those who are seeking guides
come upon false guides and life ends
in tragedy. Happy are those peo-
pie looking for a guide who find
themselves like the disciples of old
rowing across the lake on a foggy
morning, straining their eyes to make
out some familiar landmark, some
sight of the shore whittier they would
be, and out of the fog suddenly see
ing the figure of their Master looming
up before them. For He is the guide
of life. He has been through it. He
bears on his body the marks of life,
the scars of the battle which he
fought. There is not anything we
go through that he does not know
of and has not been through HIM
self.
Do you remember that old story in
the Old Testament of the three men
cast into the fiery furnace and as the
king watches them ne sees fourth
in the fire with them and the fourth
seems to wear the appearance of the
Son of God. Our Guide has been
through life before us. He knows
what paths to take and what paths
to avoid. Happy are they who find
Him in their lives as the guide.
In this world Of chaos, He is the
guide. For here is mankind off on
great adventure. II you want to
know how great an adventure, how
dazzling. read a book that gives You
a picture of human history, a book
like Mr.. Wells, and see not only the
glorious advance that human kind
has made but see how again and
again humanity has gotten off on the
wrong path, has followed some false
guide and then beaten and bleeding
has been forced to turn back, though
always with dauntless courage and
begin anew.
In this world of chaos, there looms
before humanity a guide. We have
known Him now for 1900 years and
with every decade history justifies
Him afresh and sheer necessity is
driving us back to Him again and
again. This Guide taught humanity
something about God. He taught
them something about the character
OF God. And when you come right
down to it, isn't that the most i'm