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us up, of an infinite Friend that pities us. We need to clasp a hand that
is warm, to trust in a heart full of tenderness. And even so God has in
His word revealed Himself.
He who studies most deeply into the mysteries of nature will realize
most fully his own ignorance and weakness. He will realize that there
are depths and heights which he cannot reach, secrets which he cannot
penetrate, vast fields of truth lying before him unentered. He will be
ready to say, with Newton, “I seem to myself to have been like a child
on the seashore finding pebbles and shells, while the great ocean of
truth lay undiscovered before me.”
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The deepest students of science are constrained to recognize in
nature the working of infinite power. But to man’s unaided reason,
nature’s teaching cannot but be contradictory and disappointing. Only
in the light of revelation can it be read aright. “Through faith we
understand.”
Hebrews 11:3
.
“In the beginning God.”
Genesis 1:1
. Here alone can the mind in
its eager questioning, fleeing as the dove to the ark, find rest. Above,
beneath, beyond, abides Infinite Love, working out all things to ac-
complish “the good pleasure of His goodness.”
2 Thessalonians 1:11
.
“The invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are
... perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting
power and divinity.”
Romans 1:20
, R.V. But their testimony can be
understood only through the aid of the divine Teacher. “What man
knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”
1
Corinthians 2:11
.
“When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all
truth.”
John 16:13
. Only by the aid of that Spirit who in the beginning
“was brooding upon the face of the waters;” of that Word by whom
“all things were made;” of that “true Light, which lighteth every man
that cometh into the world,” can the testimony of science be rightly
interpreted. Only by their guidance can its deepest truths be discerned.
Only under the direction of the Omniscient One shall we, in the
study of His works, be enabled to think His thoughts after Him.
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