Article January 16, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Lyman Abbott

Universalist Leader.

The closing words of Romans, 8; the apocalyptic vision of Matthew, 24 and 25; John's splendid description of the New Jerusalem and the river and tree of life, are specimens of that music of the spheres which beats and throbs and sings in the consciousness of the great souls who have felt the presence and the power of God. It will be useless to try to make Mr. Hardhead—Mr. Theological Hardhead—understand that all this means something more beautiful, suggestive, inspiring, prophetic than the old literalism and the ancient prose of faith. He has no wings. He cannot fly. He travels on the ground, not by the way of the sky, and so he misses all the high lights, all the glinting, gleaming, hinting glory of the infinite and illimitable. The world beyond the dawn, the perspective beyound the clear light of day, does not exist for him.

["The Optimist" in Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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