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Show ! DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE ) o (By Dr. James I. Vance.) It was In a restaurant In New York City. We wero seated across the table from each other. "Wo had never nev-er seen each other bofore, and shall probably never seo each other again. Tho other people at the table stared star-ed in silence and listened to our conversation. con-versation. He was a college man, and he seemed to be a gentleman. He had seen better days, and looked as If he was to see worse. Pie was the son of a minister, but he had drifted far. It was my clerical dress that had given him his cue. He did not want anything from me, but he loft something with mo that I have thought about a lot since. His last word as I rose from tho table was: "Dominie, no man can ever get away from God!" The more I think over it. tho more convinced I am that he was right. Men try to lose God. They run away from Him. They hide out and d'eny Him. They feign skepticism. They affect atheism. They become bad. Thoy go all the gaits They throw conscience on the scrap heap and make a joke of religion, .And thoy flatter themselves them-selves that they have repealed God, Thon they open their eyes and He Is standing there quietly by their side. He has never left them. He has been looking on at their folly all the time, sometimes half amused, but never meaning for one instant to go away. Strange things open the eyes of blind men to see God, and simple things, too. A turn of fortune, a stroke of luck, a sickness, a death noxt door, a battle, a song, the laughter laugh-ter of a child, a flower In the spring it does not take much. But when the right touch Is on your eyelid and we seo Him, how foolish all our skepticism skep-ticism seems! Yes, it was a wise thing one seasoned sea-soned New Yorker said: "No man can ever get away from God.' It Is hard to lose Him. It is impossible. God Is inescapable. "If I ascend up I Into heaven, thou art there. If I takej the wings of tht morning, and dwell In the uttermost parts of tho sea, even there shall thy hand lead me. and thy right hand shall hold me." |