But then they have
immediately wrapped it in packages and stowed it in boxes with
elaborate labels. Our nature craves reality, not wrappings and
tables of contents. Therefore every age has torn off some of the
ancient outer things, and insisted at last on truth alone. More
than during all the centuries before, men today demand reality--
just the essential reality a human soul craves, and can recognize,
and can use in the building of its life.
Henry Drummond spoke of the adjustment which a great telescope
needs for photographing the stars. Let us think of one fixed star.
"No adjustment is ever required on behalf of the star. That is one
great fixed point in this shifting universe. But the WORLD MOVES.
And each day, each hour, demands a further motion and adjustment
of the soul. A telescope in an observatory follows a star by
clock-work, but the clock-work of the soul is the WILL." The world
and the man must WILL TO ADJUST TO TRUTH if they would really find
and know Truth.
THE WORLD ADJUSTING TO TRUTH.
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