Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — Static Disturbances Might Be Far-Off Brotherly Hands Knocking at Our Very Door [ARTICLE]

Static Disturbances Might Be Far-Off Brotherly Hands Knocking at Our Very Door

In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” there Is a man who ran with his fingers in his ears, shoutirfg at the top of his voice, that> he might not hear. In developing the possibilities of terrestrial communication it is of consumnfute Importance that we shall find a way to put our fingers our ears and shut out the extraneous noises of the “statics” Buckner Speed writes In Harper's. It Is a cheap fancy and unprofitable science to muse about “high and far off things” belWrc we are ready for them. We go on doing the thing next to us, doing It well, conquering the obstacles that it is profitable to conquer, and we do well in doing so; but little by little In doing so we are unquestionably reaching and feeling our way toward the ability on our own part to- be cognizant of voices emanating from spheres other than our own; and if there are beings of like or greater Intelligence than ours elsewhere. we shall In time certainly be in communication with them. It may be even now that some of these static disturbances which we try so hard to shut out are far-off brotherly hands knocking at the door that we now hold fast closed.