| Show SP SPIRITUAL VISION i I AS AN ESSENTIAL Subject of Sermon Preached by Rev Simpkin Last Evening PITIFUL SIGHTLESS SOUL So Material tue Ille te ot ci r I I Vision I II mn Girt RO flo 1 A Simpkin lust on the vision nB as the tho essential ot of lire life holdIng that no soul soulIs Is so pitiful a as the tho sightless ont one Un Unbounded bounded devotion to 10 IS attended by death The speak cr eald III rt Vision ts Is riot an arbitrary and equable able In men It I is ii a gift that thatIs Is round both In III body and In soul BOlli Tue by Ito tho Is hi to one man malt nn an ab obstacle to lie n a to sIll another a io 10 the man Il hi 18 n a tilled with the lore lora ot of 1 a marvelous or 01 U 11 message that tile secret ot of wealth or ot ef wl wisdom So o life lite is 18 to cite olle man what It Is 18 to the Iho beast to It is Ie U II schoolroom anti cit 1111 urena urella of at while to still another It itt Is n a thing ot of holdIng with within Ith in III Its Ita folds the depth and breadth of at alt 1111 eternity Tile rho circle ot of men holds ito face so BO BOde de no soul so ao pitiful 11 as that ot of the tho man ho I ii devoid dovold ut of the hll high n nond and ond deep visions of at life The life lito that thaL thatis thaLIs Is or may still stillI I etain anti realize the tho privilege ot of un an eternal dignity This The soul Boul that is 18 cramped II by tue Iho bale of at en cn inn 1118 y still the thc Joy ot of its 11 find anit the tho hope of at It its hut but that soul whIch Is blind to the hl h t things is IH above all to 10 l with Science almost teSt lot II Its note ot of negation III regard to till the spiritual thIngs Only half rt a ecu t ury loin the lie t lul jul ot of the tho positivists to the Iho tied colI ot of the tho ot of toda today J m Of GOD Science tue life lite not seen back backor backof or of tie the forms torms that all the Iho age hue hus a nh n ted fot or lie tho t biding a thing When tue student linds tue tho source ot of atomic life lito In the seemingly things R ot of nature lie he Is compelled to think ot of lie tho force fulCo lire life not seen een butt but Just all as real Jt It Is to In tide domain ot of that we Vo tutu Ito Iho 1 for tur the life richer fuller rUller more us It leads lendH to 10 think over or wonderingly and some or of the great t facts which the thoughts ot of aol It ItIs Itis Is un an aphorism that holds an age nce truth bitt life lICe lack ot of vIsion Islon makes K perishing One easily the lie truth In nn an oven casual vie ot of the own who uvito have hao seen Keen till tb high things and made Ilo the tho high lire life The tact Is not to 10 be that Ihal iii is just us 1111 and true all as I Pt the material It II a titan man Ihl ho ot of the spit vision what Is left leCt to him Just to he It a beast nt at bet tattle 1 less lie HI chaos choos choose el e Iho ho death ot of his hiM high self Life is III isto to be measured role Its hIgh side It Itis is III to lie ht given liB Its shape by the tho hIgh vision of et th ho soul loul rather titan the lie cold colli narrow one ot of lite hOI body rob ered faces on IL a years ago by her and In lie Iho ho art gallery guller the tho school hool eta the home seeks to the glowing visions which gave tu to the dead Fiance her power and glory glor Th Jh and denit weight ot of th lit material are to bo be sup pleated b by the spiritual The demonstrAtion ot of the voiced in the Iho ext has been all too com coin e within our nil national Ilona politIcal and business life That devotion to ma I things tacit mad unit almost unbound unbounded ed Bell lit III the tart two ot of our lIfe Is IH b by the tho things ot of death Tho market Iti ite steel copper anti rebate rebato scandals that set the times b by Ite earr carll Phila Chicago anti lInd New York furnish h those thoc chapters that followed lie Iho or of our tlc concep of at life lit stirs the h heart art tor or the sight sightless less sockets ot of the cave that K ban Into u ul s l f lIeu 1 ot oC 13 I given to evet evel y man luau who is III never so PO poorly toward the stirs lInt BUl hI b I ot at the Ihn luau lIall to 10 Is 18 given tutu that rich I lon of God Clod unit me II or lIfe luI Iut or nr love u Ith nil all their lr divIne that have III ii the he worM worlds great t thu 1 lItt IIvo who ito 11 lIh till tel s III Ills O CP 1111 There is III Ito vi I 1 cull hut all tili full iou I d with iv it h Iud I tl sMut hilts t In 0 Its Ih fetE tell ii gt t I of itt ii 01 tilt iii of u IL III I of UH tIlt I |
