Wilford Cross
Wilford Cross
altar bring initial man molded nature stuff
Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
attic junk littered sheer
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
bread caught harvest industrial labor life plow selling within
Within this thin wafer of bread is caught up symbolically the labor of plow and of sowing, of harvest and threshing, of milling, of packing, of transportation, of financing, of selling and packaging. Man's industrial life is all there.
colonies continent man mind rational reason savage settled shallow shore thin
The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.