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

1918 FUNDAMENTALS 549
tain to intellectual accumen.
The human is endowed
with all these attributes in some degree sufliciently to
attain to a much higher degreeeif he makes an
intelligent,
as well as a loving application of his endowments.
Knowledge is the ultimate result of man's right use of
his endowments.
There is force in the grain of wheat, but it is entirely
dormant until it is planted in the warm, moist earth,
then it begins to grow, and when it has its full and true
environment, it will reproduce itself in perfection; thus
force is exprest; and these expressions contain forcesgrain-one
of which if planted will result in reproduction
again; or if the grain is cooked and eaten will result
in doing its part in the building up of the body of man
or of beast.
But no man can give to his fellow man absolute knowl~
edge of the facts that I have stated.
necessary
Self-evidence is
to have a scientific knowledge of any thing.
If you hear what one tells you, you
can reject it or
believe it, but you will not know it for yourself, if a thousand
tell you the same thing, altho it may strengthen
your faith.
If he demonstrates by his works you must
know in part, at least have a superficial knowledge of the
facts.
The reason man cannot give knowledge to his fellow
man by afiirmations is because God did not create
him to learn in that way; if he had a negative would have
as much force as an affirmative-which in fact it has,
but without further evidence man could not know which
was true, the afiirmative or the negative.
Man attains some knowledge thru his senses, which no
man can give him; no one can hear, see, taste, smell, or
feel for him; neither can he breathe, walk, or talk for
him.
But when man has attained to knowledge he can
teach man how to attain; and he may learn to attain for
himself.
The idea of reading a book and knowing what