Show the old settler 0 my aly dear san Jua ners once in my travels I 1 found a man sixty five years old who had b a d lived all his life within fifty miles ol 01 01 the sea and had never been to the coast he said that a long time before then he had been to a little town fifteen miles down the country but he related by I 1 way of apology that his friend william had once been to a place twenty five miles away since the days when they played there as boys together he lived still with william and williams travels were to him quite quile important since his own were so limited ii it was hard for me to believe as I 1 looked in all directions irom the he old ld mans cottage that thu the radius of his world took him but fifteen miles away we could see the green hills which had been inviting him from childhood and I 1 yet he had never gone to make their acquaintance and feel their thrilling touch I 1 thought that in the old man and his much tra traveled aled friend william I 1 had found something I 1 would never find again I 1 was wrong I 1 have f found the same phenomena more times than I 1 can count count even with men who have traveled d half way arduna the globe A mans mans world is after all no n wider than theotim th eTim of his standing ferstanding der like lik e a path p ath it may have one long dimension and yet be barely wide enough for him to get one foot by the other as he moved up and down in it I 1 was in ia attendance at a tain institution of learning where the professors imagined themselves in glory as the they y sounded the trumpet beir superior knowledge 0 w d g 1 What hat wey they knew in Cs t their h e i r I 1 linaas i n av a great impi inspiration to t 0 c on tats ate but b U however h owe r long that hat t lila was it was bof y na narrow r wd hid when wh en they v veered ared to place a foot f oot beyond d beaten are was to haza r e result of 1 mong 0 9 jn in the 4 W orld of ignorant n in SOP boies their de colitte me CO a on P pi 8 the old settler 0 continued from page 1 grees I 1 could think of a multi multitude tudd of men in my acquaintance who had rammed arcand through tha world over mountains moun ains and deserts and into frontier situations of great d difficulty who although altho they madeno pretensions lived in a much broader world t than han my i professors these rough and I 1 ready frontiersmen who would never dare to assume the dignity of learning could adapt to ne new W conditions meet the ed and find a way or make a way thi through ough unexpected difficulty where these specialists would be perfectly help helpless lers the extent of a mans world is the extent of his understanding understand ingi and not the area of earth over which he has traveled the old i man and his friend william were by no means the most ignorant rn men en I 1 ever knew and some of the most valuable people I 1 know have not traveled far fr from their place of birth but they have responded to their experience they have see seen and thought and felt deeply and have made for themselves a wide world of understanding the greatest character ever to conye com e among men did not travel beyond a little strip of country along the east coast of the mediterranean sea yet his was a world vast and wide and rich with beauty of feeling and appreciation because causene he developed an understanding with which he looked into the very hearts of men and mounted in his thoughts to the glory of immor immortality bality AL ALBERT BERT R LYMAN 0 |