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

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LEO-LIBRA
WHERE shall wisdom be found?
saith, It is not in me.-Job xxviii. 12, 14.
The deep saith, It is not in me: and the sea
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'¥* ia' walk the path of the higher life who has
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the path, if he goes wrong, the suffering is so much
greater, the sorrow so much deeper than on the old rcad,
that he may well sit down and count the cost before he
starts.
On the new road there are points of distinction so fine,
and passes so narrow, and the path is so little trodden
that it is almost obliterated in places, and there are obstacles
of every name and nature to encounter, that the
neophyte often cries out in despair of ever having wisdom
enough to surmount all. Frequently the neophyte is overwhelmed
with voices clambering for this decision, and for
that adjustment, until it seems impossible to decide which
is the path of justice and mercy. For Mercy must always
go hand in hand with Justice, as it walks the narrow path.
But the only certainty the neophyte can have that he is
always walking the way of wisdom at all times is to take
certain principles that he knows are Wisdom's principles,
and get them so firmly grounded into his very being, that
he will know when he is violating these principles, and
when he is acting in strict accordance with them-princi-