Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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228 BIBLE REVIEW Feb.
The difference between the holy and
the profanewho
can always discern it? We read an article in some
publication, the writer assumes to teach the reader some
spiritual truth, how many readers can clearly discern
between the false and the true? How many know the
true from the' false, the right from the wrong? Yet it is
necessary that all who would attain should know and be
able always to discern between truth and error.
As we advance along the path of attainment. the way
grows narrower and the pitfalls and bypaths more numerous
and the efforts of the enemy to deceive more subtle.
And it becomes necessary that we know and become
able to bear and to utilize the knowledge of which the
Master spoke.
Since the creation, all have been enslaved by the
forces of nature, those forces which cause us to live and
cause us to die, and it 'becomes necessary that we know,
understand, and become able to escape from that bondage,
and become masters of those forces so that we may
compel them to serve our purpose.
A loving, devout heart alone cannot give us the knowledge
we nee'd. With-
that loving, devout heart there
must be a clear, active mentality that can grasp the mysteries
of nature, can perceive and understand those
things in nature that are utterly beyond the ken of the
normal man, can clearly discern the processes of nature's
forces, so that we may compel nature to obey our word.
Truly this is a mighty task, a task that, so far as we
know, only une man, the Lord Christ, has fully accomplished.
Yet we must accomplish it, if we would reach
the high goal that the Creator has set before us.
We cannot reach this goal if we spend our time in idle
dreaming, or dalliance. Experience proves that those
who are attaining in the regeneration, if they do not
exert themselves to keep their mentality clear and active