Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-01-17 | Page 8 | Only God Can Give Life Meaning

Abundant Living Living v 7 vOnly Only God Gad Can Give Life Lire Meaning B By E. E StanIe Stanley Jones Job 1020 22 1020 22 31 3 3 I Cor 16 15 19 1516 19 IS THERE A COSMIC UC PRESENCE We Ve began yesterday with the question of whether a cosmic Presence is in the universe universe universe uni uni- verse and we ended by saying that So Something Something Some Some- ething e- e thing ought to be there If there isn't Anything Anything Anything Any Any- thing there then we have no framework of reference no star to steer our little boat by and so we are tossed from wave to w wave ve of inane and meaningless existence existence with with th no star and hence no harbor We Ve are beginning beginning be be- ginning to see the result Jesuit of losing God if we lose God then we lose the meaning out of life the life the bottom drops out of it For if there is no God to i give ve worth and nd meaning and goal to life then we are only animated bubbles that rise to the cosmic surface listen In the sunlight for a brief space and then burst leaving a nasty wet spot on the surface of things And it is all over Or 01 to change the figure Life is a fretful child that must be played with until it falls asleep If there is no God we go loud days that have no meaning and no end end a a weary round of nothing nothing- nesses We Ve know now that if we lose our Sky we shall soon lose our earth An artist said of his s nature paintings s I 1 can get the picture ri right ht if I 1 get et my sky right If you youcan youcan youcan can get hold of God or God gets g-ets hold of you then the Sky is right and everything falls rails into its place the whole thing mean mean- Someone has said Man has never been the same since God died He has taken it very hard He has For life has become hard since the Sky has turned to brassI brass I 1 sometimes wish that God were back said a wistful soul O 0 God if there be a God God I I still have to say that that help help me to get this matter c clear ear For my SJ Sky y is overcast In the words of the Britanny sailors Our boats are so small and Thy seas arc are so great I need a star starr to steer by Let the clouds open and let me see see really really see From Amen From the book Abundant Living published by Abingdon Abingdon Cokesbury Press Copyright