Article May 2, 1903 Issue

Looking at Things Unseen

S.F.S.

Hoopeston (III.) Herald

Many careless or thoughtless people declare: "I will believe nothing that I cannot see, or know through the senses." This declaration may lead others to put off the day of learning of the real and eternal, because it sounds to them like being on guard against what is unreliable.

A little thought, however, will show such an one that he is believing many things that his material senses have not taught him because their testimony is opposed to what he knows is true. He sees the sun seem to rise in the east and set in the west, but he knows that this is caused by the revolution of the earth from west to east. He sees a flat earth, but he does not believe it is flat, as did people in olden times, for he knows that science has proved that the earth is round. He certainly cannot see or perceive through material sense, the passage of sound through the telephone, nor the transmission of messages by wireless telegraphy. He will find so many things all about him that he accepts because they have been demonstrated to be true, yet which he can neither see, hear, feel, taste, nor smell, that he will be forced to admit his mistake.

Now let him turn to Paul's words: "For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal," and he can, if he will, begin to awaken to know something of the real. All that you love in those dear to you—gentleness, patience, faithfulness, joy, kindness, meekness—indeed all the good things of which Paul speaks, saying, "Think on these things,"—are among the "things unseen" which are the real and the eternal.

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