Since it's Spring Break and I'm not in New York City this year, I thought I might revive this old blog with a quote from one of my favorite authors. I'm nearing the end of this fascinating book. Don't tell me how it ends, please.
“Nonsense!” said Gregory, who was very rational when anyone else attempted paradox. “Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!”
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“It is you who are unpoetical,” replied the poet Syme. “If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Baker Street or to Bagdad. But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo! it is Victoria. No, take your books of mere poetry and prose; let me read a time table, with tears of pride. Take your Byron, who commemorates the defeats of man; give me Bradshaw, who commemorates his victories. Give me Bradshaw, I say!”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday |
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ReplyDeleteVictoria is the man made victory and until the eyes and souls are enlightened man will never find Baker Street!
ReplyDelete"If a master should send a servant to a certain place and command him to stay there till such a "time," and, presently after, should send another servant to the same place, the meeting of these two is wholly casual in respect to themselves, but ordained and foreseen by the master who sent them. They fall out unexpectedly as to us, but not so to God. He foresees and He appoints all the vicissitudes of things.
The psalmist exclaims, 'O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!' And the writer of Ecclesiastes says, 'He hath made everything beautiful in its time.' In the vision which the prophet Isaiah saw, the seraphim sang, 'Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: The whole earth is full of His glory.'"
Speaking of timetables and Bradshaw (The real victory?)
"Much of the difficulty in regard to the doctrine of Predestination is due to the finite character of our mind, which can grasp only a few details at a "time," and which understands only a part of the relations between these. We are creatures of "time," and often fail to take into consideration the fact that God is not limited as we are. That which appears to us as "past," "present," and "future," is all "present" to His mind. It is an eternal "now." 'He is the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity.'" Isa 57:15
"The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination" Loraine Boettner