HOW TO SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
THE Lord wants all the world to know that He is God, and that there is none else worthy the title. This is not for His own benefit, as tho He were in need; but it is for the benefit of the creatures of His hand. Mankind could have so much more of blessing in every way if all would but acknowledge Him who alone has all needed, all possible, blessings to bestow. "In Him we live, and move, and have our being," and from Him cometh "every good and perfect gift." Again, "He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." To the end that all the world shall know the true God, and be benefited by the knowledge, it is essential that those who profess to know Him shall manifest it in obedient lives. It is essential that they prove the sincerity of their profession of faith by corresponding lives. At the close of King Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, he emphasized his petition for special guidance in the following words: "And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that He maintain the cause of His servant, and the cause of His people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require; that all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else. Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day." This prayer was offered under a special endowment of wisdom and of the Spirit of prayer; and it shows God's chosen means of disseminating a true and effective knowledge of Himself and His infinite blessings throughout the world. It is now due to the world that the Gospel of the coming kingdom of God be universally proclaimed—that "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." It is therefore most emphatically the obligation of those who profess His name to let their hearts "be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments." "For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous."