It Is Magnificent To Grow Old, If

Every Human Life Involves An Unfathomable Mystery, For Man Is The Riddle Of The Universe, And The Riddle Of Man In His Endowment With Personal Capacities.

God Is Not A Cosmic Bellboy For Whom We Can Press A Button To Get Things.

One Of The Strange Phenomena Of The Last Century Is The Spectacle Of Religion Dropping The Appeal Of Fear While Other Human Interests Have Picked It Up.

The More We Know About This Universe, The More Mysterious It Is. The Old World That Job Knew Was Marvelous Enough, And His Description Of Its Wonders Is Among The Noblest Poetry Of The Race, But Today The New Science Has Opened To Our Eyes Vistas Of Mystery That Transcend In Their Inexplicable Marvel Anything The Ancients Ever Dreamed.

Some Things Mankind Can Finish And Be Done With, But Not ... Science, That Persists, And Changes From Ancient Chaldeans Studying The Stars To A New Telescope With A 200-inch Reflector And Beyond; Not Religion, That Persists, And Changes From Old Credulities And World Views To New Thoughts Of God And Larger Apprehensions Of His Meaning.