Article November 7, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from C. A. S. Dwight, Oliver Lodge

[Editorial in the Outlook, New York.]

From time to time men and women of spiritual genius appear who are not imposed upon by the mere processes of thought, the sounding verbiage of knowledge, the false witness of the blind or the half-blind, the illusion of the finality of the age; who look through the mist and see the sublime order moving to its appointed ends with the majesty of great stars set in their places by omnipotence. When these prophets, poets, teachers, appear, faith comes stealing back to the channels that had become hard and dry, and the barren land begins to sing once more. To such as these, who have the pure heart, the obedient will, the mind of the child, the highest things are not only credible: they are inevitable and unescapable. And these men and women are the spiritual experts; the only observers who speak with the authority of eye-witnesses. Against their witness the testimony of the sick, the deaf, the blind, has no weight; it is moving, pathetic, freighted with the pathos of suffering; but its value is personal, not universal.

[Rev. C. A. S. Dwight in The New York Observer.]

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