SILENT WATCHES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1938, Page 7

SILENT WATCHES

SIMPLE CONFESSION OF FAITH. A simple confession of faith is attributed to a sailor by a writer in the “Christian Science Monitor.” The sailor muses: —A fellow can’t help but ponder in the peace and bigness of the ocean. He feels things that he can’t explain—feels them all through, at. times. The order up above argues against things on the earth being so topsy-turvy as they often seem. I’ve gained the idea out there under the stars that we folks on this planet get into trouble because of our ignorance of the same law that makes the order and beauty we see. I don’t know what this law is. My mother called it God. She used to talk about God being a supreme power who was perfect and who was everywhere and all. I guess every fellow feels inside that there is a changeless power back of life. It is not religious to think that —just common sense, in view of what we know and expect concerning order in our universe. It is a strange thing to me that natural science explorers steer away from the Scriptural declaration that there is an intelligence behind the order. - Such getting off the course sails into complexity and confusion and a babel of terms. It doesn’t seem good navigating. Some day, one of our courageous natural scientists, I hope, will toss abstractions into a wastepaper basket and accept the simple teachings of Jesus of Nazareth —His sound pronouncement of cause, His declaration of reality, and His sane spiritual economics.