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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 45.

Knowledge.

KNOWLEDGE is not to be sought merely for the sake of knowing, but that it may, when attained, be applied to practical use. Men are not intended to live ideal, but practical lives. They are placed here for activity. They have a great work to do, and it is important that they acquire knowledge to qualify them for their work. A man who wisely applies his knowledge for the accomplishment of good, can never know too much. But a man who hoards up, like a miser, the knowledge he obtains, and, either from indolence or indifference, does not employ it for the good of others, is utterly selfish, and, so far as his influence is concerned, might as well have remained in ignorance. Practically, his knowledge is useless. Know and do, obtain and give, is the law of life that every man should observe. No man should make himself the center of all good, but all he knows and all he has should be employed in diffusing happiness around him. This will make a man Godlike; for God is the great fountain of all blessing, and in proportion as we bless others, we shall resemble him, and be blessed ourselves. Do not dream your life away in abstract speculations, but employ all your knowledge and all your ability in honoring God and blessing humanity.—Methodist Recorder.