Knowledge by Eliza H. Morton

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 3, 1878

Knowledge

By Eliza H. Morton

Knowledge.

It has been said that, "Knowledge is the wing Whereby we fly to Heaven."

Although man can never regain his former estate by obtaining knowledge, yet he can, by the proper use of the right kind of knowledge, fit himself for the society of God, Christ and angels.

The knowledge of sin is obtained by the law. The knowledge of salvation is obtained through Jesus Christ and "in everything we are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge." We are counseled by "holy men of old" to "lay up knowledge," and our enjoyment in this life may be greatly heightened, by a wise cultivation of our intellectual powers. The vast wealth of literature and thought is for us. We may possess a true appreciation of the beautiful in nature, roam the fields of science with keen and eager research and stand at the very "portals of all knowledge." All this need not unfit us for religious worship. Indeed, the study of the works of God, as manifested in the myriad forms of animal and vegetable life, the laws which govern the universe and the wonders of the sky, cannot fail to impress us with an overwhelming sense of the omnipotence of our God and to bow us in "dust and ashes" before his throne.

Although there is "no knowledge in the grave," yet we know not how our future life may be effected by our progress in knowledge here. There is a day coming when "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea," and in that day the truly wise "will shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever."

ELIZA H. MORTON. Allen's Corner, Me.