More homelike seems the vast unknown,
Since they have entered there;
To follow them were not so hard,
Wherever they may fare;
They can not be where God is not,
On any sea or shore;
Whate'er betides, Thy love abides,
Our God, for evermore.
(1378)
Heaven, Getting to—See Obligation to the Church.
Heaven Open—See Looking Up.
HEAVEN OUR HOME
When King Khama came from Bechuanaland
to England he was constantly asking
"Where is Africa?" No matter how fascinating
were the sights, his heart turned always
homeward. So the Christian in the
midst of all life's distractions may remember
that here he has no continuing city—heaven
is his home. (Text.)
(1379)
Heavenly Mail Facilities—See Children's Religious Ideas.
Heavenly Treasures—See Treasures
Laid Up.
HEAVENLY VISITORS
Observations of falling stars have been
used to determine roughly the average number
of meteorites which attempt to pierce
the earth's atmosphere during each twenty-four
hours. Dr. Schmidt, of Athens, from
observations made during seventeen years,
found that the mean hourly number of
luminous meteors visible on a clear, moonless
night by one observer was fourteen,
taking the time of observation from midnight
to 1 A.M. It has been further experimentally
shown that a large group of observers who
might include the whole horizon in their
observations would see about six times as
many as are visible to one eye. Prof. H.
A. Newton and others have calculated that,
making all proper corrections, the number
which might be visible over the whole earth
would be a little greater than 10,000 times
as many as could be seen at one place. From
this we gather that not less than 20,000,000
luminous meteors fall upon our planet daily,
each of which in a dark clear night would
present us with the well-known phenomenon
of a shooting-star. This number, however,
by no means represents the total number of
minute meteorites that enter our atmosphere,
because many entirely invisible to the naked
eye are often seen in telescopes. It has been
calculated that the number of meteorites, if
these were included, would be increased at
least twentyfold; this would give us 400,000,000
of meteorites falling in the earth's
atmosphere daily.—J. Norman Lockyer,
Harper's Magazine.
(1380)
Heavens, The—See Privilege.
Height—See Giants and Dwarfs; Upward
Look.
Height Abolishing Burdens—See Weight
Diminished by Ascent.
HEIGHTS
The mind of Christ places and keeps us
on the heights, lifting our consciousness
from the seen to the unseen, and opening all
our little restricted nature to the joyous
rhythm of the universal life. What cowards
we are when dominated by the seen. We
dare not affirm anything beyond the reach of
the eye, the sound of the ear, the touch of
the finger-tips. But the beauties we see are
only the reflection of the beauties that are,
like Pluto's artizans in the cave, catching
only the reflected light from the realm above,
the music we hear, the merest jingle of the
melodies divine, the things we touch, the
superficial, mechanical, material side of
reality. Why can't we believe that the unseen
things which can be detected from the
heights are those that are worth while, because
the abiding, the eternal? Only on the
heights can we dominate bodily conditions.—Robert
MacDonald.
(1381)
Heights, In the—See Confidence.
HEIGHTS, LIVING ON
On the heights above the vega of Granada
there rises the great palace of the Alhambra.
In the lower stories there are the menial
offices of domestic use. Above them are the
living rooms, the guest chambers, the halls of
the Moorish kings; and far above them all
rises the great red tower into which the
Moslem kings could ascend to look upward
to the stars and downward on the valley,
green with trees and beautiful with cities.
So God has made our lives. The lower stories serving the needs of our material life, the higher ones of intellect and affection, where we live in the joys of thought and friendship; but high above them all rises the great watch-tower of the soul in which the noise and toils of earth are lost in
