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

1917 RESPONSIBILITIES 259
stared him in the face; for in leading the regenerate life
and in keeping the mind stayed on God, God will reveal
himself.
"I have a right to my own opinions," is true on both
planes, "as below so above." These new and altered
opinions one gains in going over the higher path, one
certainly has a right to; for the one who has them has
earned them. No one has attained any progress on that
road but what he has earned it; for there is no cheating
where our Heavenly Father is the Teacher; because he
gives to every man according to his labor.
"And I have a right to express those opinions." In
in another, "No."
one sense "Yes,"
the wise parent or teacher tell the young child
Does
everything he or she knows?
Every parent with even
a moderate amount of wisdom knows that if he were so
to do that he would often be the means of leading the
child astray. To give a child knowledge before he has
attained the maturity to grasp it, would be doing the
child an injury. It would only befuddle his brain and
led him on the wrong track. If this is a truth on the
plane regarding secular knowledge, how does it apply on
the higher plane? As truths on the higher plane are more
powerful both for destruction and construction, if we express
or give out truths before people are ready for them,
we are doing harm, and they will turn again and rend
the sender.
This is the reason that the Christ gave his
disciples such careful instructions on this point, for the
greatest rending that a person can have is thru a perverted
truth. There is probably no one who has started
on the road, who has not at some time or other made this
mistake of giving out truths to those who were not ready
to receive them.
One of the greatest sorrows that our beloved Brother
Butler had was that he could not give out all the truths