"The United Seas"
By
ROBERT W. ROGERS
Blessed are the pathfinders who do not fear the
seas, for they have discovered that the very
waters are moving toward freedom
AN INTERPRETATION
of the opening of the Panama Canal, commemorated by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Copyrighted 1915
by Robert W. Rogers
All rights reserved
in all languages.
[INTRODUCTION.]
VISION, THE NEED OF THE HOUR
We are living in a day when it would almost seem that the person who does not value vision is neither helpful nor wise. For it is a day when the people everywhere need an essential vision in order that they may gain courage to settle down to constructive effort after the close of the world war.
In other words there are multitudes who feel that there is a far deeper significance to the opening of the Panama Canal as commemorated by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition than what appears on the surface. There never was an Exposition like it. There never will be another similar to it in the future. Simply because there seems to be something written between the lines. It is an Exposition in which it appears to be natural for the sanest men to be prophetic—one in which men not only behold the star of faith but also feel that the star is calling them to move toward something better, even if they have to grope their way. An obscure vision seems to be in the sky of hosts of people and they are anxious to hear the interpretations of men who are brave enough to suggest one. They are asking what does the peculiar inspiration of this Exposition mean?