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hear, hardening your heart in ignorance and unbelief lest you may have
to humble yourselves and acknowledge that you have received light on
some points of truth. To hold yourselves aloof from an investigation of
truth is not the way to carry out the Saviour’s injunction to “search the
Scriptures.” Is it digging for hidden treasures to call the result’s of some
one’s labor a mass of rubbish, and make no critical examination to see
whether or not there are precious jewels of truth in the collection of
thought which you condemn? Will those who have almost everything
to learn keep themselves away from every meeting where there is
an opportunity to investigate the messages that come to the people,
simply because they imagine the views held by the teachers of the
truth may be out of harmony with what they have conceived as truth?
Thus it was that the Jews did in the days of Christ, and we are warned
not to do as they did, and be led to choose darkness rather than light,
because there was in them an evil heart of unbelief in departing from
the living God. No one of those who imagine that they know it all is
too old or too intelligent to learn from the humblest of the messengers
of the living God.—
Sabbath-School Worker, June 1, 1892
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