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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 6.

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Knowledge and Love

KNOWLEDGE alone of the word of God is of no real benefit. It will never build a character. It may "set off" the individual, and bring him worldly admiration and honor; but it will not honor Christ. Divinity is hidden by the human. The individual will find his chief delight in what he knows and what his knowledge brings. But love for God, while it delights in what it knows, finds greater delight in what it is able to do for the Master. Knowledge is profitable only when united with love. Love in itself implies knowledge; for one cannot love that which he does not know. The difference between the two is expressed by the apostle in 1 Cor. 8:1: "Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth;" or better rendered, "Knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up." The difference is that between an inflated bag and a well-built edifice of stone. "Love never faileth."