The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-07

he laughter of which was still an
echo In their ears. or these far
stretching wastes OF wintry waters
They couldn't help but be
thoughtful. Realities went home
20 them that they had no desire
to admit A ferycnt belief IN their
own capitalization had been their
dominant point Of view. dlsil
usionment and a realism that was
the tone % their generation, de
nying all they could not ace or
hear. holding themselves super
ciliously aloof from that gracious
wonder and simplicity that still
bless little children: but here was
something that was inscrutahly
beyond them. They couldn't laugh
Il away. They couldn't cast II Off
with phrase Of cheap slang, de.
meaning Il I'm order 10 hold firm
10 their own philosophy OF Self
Here was something that shook
their old attitude OF selflovo and
elfsufficicney 90 It's foundations
They thought they knew life. these
three. they thought they were big
ser than life. that they had mas
tered u and found Il out and
= 7trlppcd all deluaions from u. but
now their unutterahls coneei,, the
pillar Of their lives. was threaten.
/ lng 10 fall. This sunlit sea was
too big for them. too big and too
mighty and too old.
The trouble with Ned's genera.
ton was that u was goddess
generation: the same evil that RACED
Babylon 20 tho dust Ned and
his kind had como 10 be suffi'
Client unto themselves. They had
/ lost tho wonder and fear OF lifo.
and that meant nothing less than
/ tho loss OF their wonder and fear
of the great Author Of life. To
these. life had been game tina,
they thought they had transferred,
They had laughed 20 scorn the
| philosophers that a hundred gen
| erations OF nobler men had built
up with wondering reverence. Made
arrogant by luxury and ease, thcy
knew Of nothing too big for them,
no mystery that their contemptu
Gus gaze could not penetrate. no
!. wonder that their reckless hands
could not unveil. They were drunk
with their own glories, and the
ultimate Source Of all things had
no place in their PHILOSOPHERS OF
their thoughts II was true that
\ churches fiourished among them
/ that Charity received her due. but
4 tho old viriiS faith. tho reveren'
wonder. the mighty urge that ha'
achieved all things that have beer
worth achieving were cold anc
dead In their hearts. But out here
in this little. wind blown craft, sur
rounded by an immensely OF desc
latlon beyond tho power OF theil
minds 20 grasp. Il was hard 20 hoi'
,o their old complncency, Their OLE
: PHILOSOPHERS were barrrnly INSULT
rient. and they couldn't rspcl AT
ever deepening sense Of awe. TIT
wind. sweeping over them out o
tho vastncss. was a now voice,
striking the laughter from ihel
lips and lnatulinE a eoldness tina
wis almost fear in their warm
. youthful blood The sun shonc now
but soon vast areas. not Tar OF
would bc locked tight with tGs
never the movement Of a wave
z never the flash Of aeabird's wlni
over the wastes and the though
7 sohered them and perhaps humbic'
l them a little too. Sometimes. alon
= on the deck az night Ned wa
close 10 the dearest reality. IN
most profound discovery that coul'
: possibly touch his life. that tn
, dreadful spirit % God moved upoT
! the face o. these desolats waters
no less than. as Is told in Genesis