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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 3, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 5.

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Solomon’s Wisdom

By Editor

WE learn from the report of a sermon by Rev. Dr. Stebbins, of San Francisco, that although Solomon "has been called a very wise man," he possessed wisdom only to a limited degree, "but was not a wise man nor a profound man." The learned speaker said that Solomon "was always asking questions about everything, never seeing into anything." This declaration is in the face of the following words addressed to Solomon by the Lord: "Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee." 1 Kings 3:12. But Solomon didn't live in the nineteenth century, and was consequently ignorant of many things that are known by modern "divines." However, we would rather know only a few things that are true, than to know so many things that are not so.