It is interesting to examine our ideas concerning space, which of necessity is infinite and includes all. One of the tendencies of the human mind is to isolate the individual from the rest of the universe. This tendency would deprive the individual of his right to belong to the whole of creation. Moreover, it would separate him from the security of the universal order in which man is inseparable from infinite Spirit, God, who fills all space and comprehends all that there is. The following experience will serve to illustrate how we may constantly ally ourselves in thought with the spiritual truth which, by the unfoldment of our true identity, reveals to us the immediate protection of God.
One evening as I was walking in the country, I was deeply moved by the multitude of stars which were visible in the dark reaches of the firmament. I remembered just then that I had once learned that the ancient Gauls feared that the sky would fall on their heads. And for a few moments it was difficult for me to lift my thought above the suggestion that pictured man as weak and inconsequential, moving amidst forces and compulsions to which he can only resign himself passively and fearfully.
But as my thought righted itself and contemplated the spiritual nature of man, the inspiration of the eighth Psalm came to me. It begins, "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens." And it includes this passage: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? ... Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet."
