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Show As he grows and develops he has faith and tniat. Bat be knows not of his own investigation whence he Came nor whither he goes. He cannot tell why a blade of grass grows. HE IS SO IGNORANT THAT THE VERY ASSUMPTION OF KNOWL-EDGE KNOWL-EDGE OP GOD AND LIFE MAKES.HIS IGNORANCE IGNO-RANCE ONLY THE MORE APPARENT. We dp not know. We may accept the revelations revela-tions of Scripture and we may believe,. BUT OF OURSELVES WE DO NOT KNOW. WE CAN ONLYrFFL THAT THERE. IS A GOD AND A FTJTUR? FE. We cannot define God out of our own kne ze any better than we can explain life. When wi a man attempting it we feel pity, for him. -Neither chemical research' nor taking thought will solve the problem. Each of as mast do that for himself when the time comes. Worry and conjecture conjec-ture make neither the individual nor his fellows better bet-ter or happier. A - WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT LIFE AS A RARE AND PRECIOUS BOON, LlVE IT AS BEST WE CAN AND FIND IN IT THAT , WHICH STRENGTHENS OUR FAITH IN A HEREAFTER HEREAF-TER AND IN A LOVING GOD WHO WILL GIVE US KNOWLEDGE WHEN WE ARE FITTED TO HAVE IT. It is not to the theorist nor the chemist that wo must look for comfort and guidance. Difirtin Cod. i "Tiring of the war and the last, new book as topics top-ics the persons who must be talking about something some-thing have returned, to the staple subjects of life &nd God. ; ' Dr. Lyman Abbott, who is old enough to know better, recently attempted to define God. He has been charged with heresy and various other offenses of-fenses by those who are orthodox, but to us it seems that his greatest offense lies in attempting the impossible. im-possible. : rOR'MAN TO TRY TO DEFINE GOD IS THE HEIGHT QF. ABSURDITY. MAX IS TOO INSIGNIFICANT. IN-SIGNIFICANT. A PART OF THE CREATED WORLD. HE KNOWS NOT .HIMSELF NOR WHAT HIS LIFE IS; HOW THEN CAN HE gSOW WHAT GOD IS? But for centuries man has been arrogant and .bumptious enough to essay the task. In so doing he has given us mere personal opinion. It is like the trial of the seven blind men to describe the elephant ele-phant after each had felt a portion of its body. 2mw comes a Chicago university professor, and asserts to a class that life is the'result of purely physlcatand chemical forces. 'Tbe manjs undoubtedly undoubt-edly sincere in what he says but it is strange that a sense of his own effrontery does not dawn upon him. v WHAT DOES ANY OF US KNOW ABOUT LIFE? IT IS AS GREAT A MYSTERY AS BIRTH AND DEATH. IT IS SO GREAT THAT IT IS TERRIBLE, AWFUL. Yet some clergymen nnd professors talk as glibly about it as they would about the weather, Science has made progress and the thought of today Is undoubtedly in advance of that of a few centuries ago but all that science has learned of the gigantid mysteries of creation is but a tiny drop of the sea of wisdom. "WHICH OF YOU BY TAKING TAK-ING THOUGHT CAN ADD A CUBIT TO HIS STATURE?" - A man has the privilege of looking at life from whatever point of view he may select but he has no right to form an opinion of what, is too bijf for the minds of all men to grasp. His viewi should not be thrast upon his fellows to their possible detriment. EVERY MAN' LEARNS FR01I WITHIN ' THAT HE HAS ASOUL. HE FEEL'S THAT A TAKT OF HIM LIVES AND MUST CONTINI E Tu LIVE. He itstinctively hopes for a future life. |