Show THIS and THAT contributed despair there are appeals plenty aplenty a appeals that invite and entice but thinking men and women can never be fed up on the and tinsel glory of this old world the beggarly elements can never satisfy the soul that longs for the bread of heaven how heavy and sad therefore must be the hearts of those who continually say in their souls there is no god but sadder and tar more pathetic are those souls whose lives are one daily round of unbelief yet dreading and fearing that there may be a god of justice to whom they shall some day have to give account what despair is written in those words of jean paul rechter I 1 have gazed into the gulf beyond and cried father where art thou but no answer came save the sound of the eternal storm which rages uncontrolled we are orphans you and I 1 every soul in this vast corpse trench of the universe is utterly alone and lost anomaly but what strange anomaly is this he is the Tio liest of the holy the mightiest of the mighty said jean paul bichter of jesus but where did jean paul get the idea that anything is righteous holy mighty eternal what and if after all my vain assertions to the contrary there is a god was instinctive in bichter and is instinctive in every sinner that ever lived or shall live but can a man starve and kill his body he pan and can he not starve his soul Is there food and sustenance for the body and none for the soul between husks and bread will a man choose husks Is there no difference between mere existence and red blooded virile living Is there a physical difference and no difference mentally normally spiritually Is there no meaning in the words of the great teacher man doth not live by bread alone easy it is easy to believe in god if a man wants to it Is much harder not to believe whatever a mans wishes may be in the matter there are plenty of good reasons all about us tor believing there Is a god with not one good reason anywhere for not believing to assert with that a thing Is not has never yet been proof conclusive that the thing is not A mole is not made better and wiser nor does he prove the superiority of his sphere by oozing out of his earth and railing against the eagle and his sun the apathetic indifference of sc offers to religion and the failings railings rai lings of infidels can never make ineffective the faith of god let god be true but every man a liar godless when a tree dies it is evident that the tree somehow got out of right and corresponding relation to its life giving environment A godless man is a dead man dead to god and dead by his own choosing when god does not live in a mans soul he Is to that man nowhere the mans life and conduct may be of such sort as to cause him to hope there is no god and he can hope there is no god till he thinks and believes and asserts there is no god such hoping and thinking and believing renders hinr a godless man but it does not thrust god out of his universe nor does it put him out of the individual experience of others he that cometh to god must believe that he is and that he is the of them that all li gently seek not know that he is nor prove that he is but believe that he is tips two little urchins were watching a barber singe a lady customers hair gee said one he s hunting em with a light chaperon A couple of flappers pooled their spending money to buy a bool advertised as what a young lady should know before marriage the book arrived cooking blacet ter aunt mary the preacher is coming to call this afternoon dora who has just read sinclair lewis do you think its safe life he s a tough baby how so they tried to electrocute him and he blew out a fusel pointer |