Philosophy and the One Thing Needful

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1880

Philosophy and the One Thing Needful

I TAKE it to be true of the intellectual creation that it profits not a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. Let not, therefore, philosophy take up our life, so as not to leave us leisure to prepare for death. We may visit Athens, but we must dwell at Jerusalem; we may take some turns on Parnassus, but should more frequent Mount Calvary; and we must never so busy ourselves about the many things as to forget the "one thing needful," that good part which shall not be taken away from us.