True Religion Better Than Scholarship
By Editor
A gentleman occupying a high position in this country said the other day to the young people of San Francisco: “I know of no richer possession than “scholarship, no nobler ambition than to obtain it.” We are sorry that he knows no richer possession. One may exhaust the scholarship of the world, and be lost at last. His life may be an encyclopedia of facts, but he is as dead as a paper book. The poor ignorant native, who never can hope to become a scholar, may know Christ Jesus, and in knowing Him have eternal life, while the world’s greatest scholar may die without hope. In the eternity to come the most ignorant saved one will rival in his scholarship the combined learning of the world’s ages; but to the dead scholar nothing comes. True religion is better than scholarship.