"It Is Time to Seek the Lord."
A SCIENTIST, after half a century of research and critical study of his own, also of every other scientist, confesses that "I do not know anything except a few laws of mathematics which to all present appearances seem to be true and on a changeless base. After having attempted to teach for years, I now and here drop the silly title 'professor,' as I no longer dare 'profess' to know anything." He declares, "I found out that I know nothing about why a stone falls to the ground. But this is easy compared to the job of finding why grass grows and how the bird floats in thin air without moving a wing. Anything but a bird would fall to the ground with great velocity."
So declares Prof. Edgar L. Larkin, of Lowe Observatory, in the San Francisco Examiner of May 10, 1907. He quotes Edison as saying, "Constant research during the next five hundred years may enable us to begin to surmise," and continues, "According to these statements it appears that everything that we now call rigid laws may be little by-laws. Our 'foundation' actually may be a delusion, and may have to be torn up by the discovery of some stupendous law."
And such indecision and uncertainty will ever come when men endeavor to find absolute perfection in a nature perverted by sin. Just as long as men assume that the cosmos grew to be thru certain laws, regardless of God, save hypothetically, yet leave out His revelation and the great fact of the entrance of sin, they will ever go astray; their laws will ever find exceptions and their conclusions will often be as aberrant as the orbit of a comet. God has revealed to us His unerring, infallible law of conduct for sinful man in the Decalogue, He has revealed to us salvation from this sinful, perverted condition thru the life which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. And among the many admonitions which He has given us, it would be well to take home to our hearts these words from His prophet, "Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth Me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth loving-kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth, for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah." Thru the knowing of God we may come to know some things in this life, and in the everlasting life to come all things that are worth knowing.