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Speaker 1: Look aloft. The old sailor's advice, the warning cry peace

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and content, mental balance recovered, the glory of the universe,

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all governed by law. The law manifests everywhere a reverent

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feeling of calm, peaceful faith. Look aloft. I recently heard

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a little tale about a boy who went to sea

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in the old days of the sailing vessel. One day

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he was ordered to go aloft, and was urged on

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until he reached the highest possible point on the mosque.

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When he found that he could go no farther, he

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glanced down. The sight terrified him and almost caused him

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to loose his grip and fall headlong on the deck

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far below. He felt dizzy and sick, and it seemed

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almost impossible for him to maintain his hold on the mast.

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Far blow was the deck looking so small as compared

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to the wide expanse of water on all sides of it.

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The motion made him feel as if he was suspended

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between heaven and Earth. Was nothing substantial to support him.

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He felt his brain reeling and his senses leaving him,

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and all seemed lost. When far away from the deck below,

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he heard an old sailor cry, look aloft, Lad look aloft.

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Turning his eyes from the scene below, the boy gazed upward.

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He saw the blue sky, the fleecy clouds passing peacefully along,

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looking just the same as they did when he had

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looked at them while lying on his back on the

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green grass of the meadows in his country home. A

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strange feeling of peace and content came over him, and

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the feeling of dread, terror and despair passed away. His

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strength and presence of mind came back to him, and

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soon he was able to slide down the mast until

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he grasped a friendly rope, thence to the lower ringing,

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and on until the deck was again reached. He never

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forgot the old sailor's advice given in the hour of need,

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and when he would feel dazed and fearful of danger,

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he would invariably look aloft until he recovered his mental balance.

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We may well take a leaf from the old Sailor's

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note book and impress his wisdom upon our minds. There

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is nothing so good in hours of trial, doubt, sorrow,

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and pain as to look aloft when we feel that

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we cannot see clearly with our spiritual vision, that our

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spiritual sight is blurred and dim, that we lose faith

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and confidence, hope and courage, that we feel the deadly

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sensation of despair and hopelessness creeping over us and benumbing

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our senses, stilling our heart. Then is the time for

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us to listen to the warning shout look aloft, lad,

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look aloft. When all seems lost, when darkness is closing

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around us, when we seem to have lost our foothold

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and have no way of regaining it, When all appears hopeless, gloomy,

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and dreadful, when faith seems to have deserted us and

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the hill of unbelief is on us, Then is the

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time for us to shout to ourselves, look aloft, look aloft.

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When we try to solve the riddle of the universe,

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the problem of existence by the aid of the intellect,

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unsupported by faith. When we ask our intellects, whence come I?

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Whither go I? What is the object of my existence?

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What does life mean? When we travel round and round

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the weary paths of intellectual reasoning and find that it

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has no ending. When we shout aloud the question of

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life and hear no answer but the despairing echo of

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our own sad cry. When life seems a mockery. When

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life seems to be without reason, when life seems a

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torment devised by a fiend, When we lose the feeling

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of nearness to the infinite power that has supported us

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in the past, when we lose the touch of the

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unseen hand, these are the times for us to look

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upward to the source of wisdom and light. These are

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the times for us to heed the cry of the soul.

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Look aloft, Look aloft, Look aloft. Some clear night, when

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the moon is not shining, go out into the darkness

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and gaze upward at the stars. You will see countless

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bright spots, each of which is a sun, equalling or

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exceeding in size the Sun, which gives light and life

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to our little earth, each sun having its circling worlds,

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many of the worlds having moons revolving around them. In turn,

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look all over the heavens as far as the eye

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can reach, and endeavor to grasp the idea of the

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countless suns and worlds. Then try to imagine that in space,

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far beyond the reach of human vision, even aided by

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the telescope, are millions upon millions of other worlds and

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suns on all sides of us, on and on and

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on throughout the universe, reaching into infinity. And then remember

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that all these worlds hold their places and revolve according

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to law. And then remember that the microscope shows that

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law manifests itself in the smallest thing that can be seen.

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By its use, or around you, you will see nothing

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but the manifestations of law. And then remembering that the infinite,

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which has us all in charge, takes note of the

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foe of the sparrow. What has become of your fears

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and doubts and words? Gone is your despair and unbelief,

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And in their place is found a reverent feeling of calm,

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peaceful faith. I there is much good sense in the

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old sailor's maxim When you get rattled, look aloft