Interests, The Functioning of—See [Atrophy].
Internationalism—See [Statesmanship].
Interpretation and Individuality—See [Individuality in Interpretation].
INTERPRETATION BY EXPERIENCE
A little boy who was born blind had an operation performed which enabled him to see. His mother led him out into the fields, and uncovered his eyes for the first time, and let him look upon the sky and trees and grass and flowers. “Oh, mother!” he cried, “why didn’t you tell me it was so beautiful?” “I tried to tell you, dear,” was her answer, “but you could not understand me.”
So it is sometimes with great verses in the Bible. When we read them first or commit them to memory, we do not understand, but after, when they fit the heart life and our eyes are opened, we wonder at the beauty of them.—Phebe Palmer.
(1661)
Interpretation by Love—See [Love, Interpretation by].
INTERRUPTION
It is to be feared that much of the force of God’s spirit is cut off by the world’s atmosphere before it reaches a soul that is immersed in worldliness: