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

1917 DISCRIMINATION 229
by exercising themselves much in orderly, consecutive
thought that they will soon become mentally torpid, and
with that torpidity there is inability to discern, to perceive
clearly the truth of things offered.
And as a natural
consequence there will be inability to be or to do.
Thruout the world there are many teachers of many
cults and isms, in fact in the present darkened condition
of man's mentality there seems to be no teaching so absurd,
so grotesque but it will have a following. There
are many who are saying, "I want to know the truth; if
I can fiad the truth I will follow it;" and these go from
teacher to teacher, from writer to writer seeking the
truth, and few, very few recognize the truth when it
is presented to them. Indeed, they are but few who
have any sure criterion by means of which they may distinguish
truth from error. Because of this, all kinds of
theories and all kinds of teachings flourish. The sophistries
of the many teachers are such that they deceive
all but the elect.
It may be asked, "Who are the elect?"
Certainly they are those who are able to discern the truth
and live it.
He who upon the shores of Galilee spoke as never man
spoke, declared, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."
In his own practise, he embodied the true way, the way
to dominion over all nature. His words were the truth;
and if grasped and lived they lead to endless life. It
was even as he said, "If a man keep my saying he shall
never see death."
But the sayings of Jesus have never
been fully lived, if they had been by any one that one
would never have died. It behooves us then, if we
would follow him into the regeneration and attain the
dominion over all nature's
forces and so gain endless life,
that we be awake and alive, with clear heads as well as
stout and loving hearts that we may be able to discern
between the false and the true, the holy and the profane.