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knowledge is the knowledge of God, and of Jesus 

 Christ, our Lord and Master. And similarly science 

 emphasizes that the chief end of all knowledge is that 

 we should know the environment to which we are to 

 conform. Knowledge is useful to strengthen and 

 clarify the mind, that it may see and conform to truth 

 and God : and if it fails to become a means to con- 

 formity, it has failed of the chief, and practically the 

 only, end for which it was intended. We are to come 

 " in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the 

 Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of 

 the stature of the fulness of Christ." But knowledge 

 which only puffs up and distracts the mind from the 

 great aims and ends which it should serve is rebuked 

 with equal emphasis by the Bible and by science. 



I would not claim that we have set too high a value 

 upon knowledge, perhaps we cannot; but there is 

 something far higher on which we are inclined to set 

 far too low a value. This is righteousness and love ; 

 and true wisdom is knowledge permeated, vivified, and 

 transfigured by devotion to these higher ends. And 

 in this highest realm of the mind feeling and will rule 

 conjointly. Love is a feeling which always will and 

 must find its way to activity through the will, and it 

 is an activity of the will roused by the very deepest 

 feeling, inspired by a worthy object. If you try to 

 divorce them, both die. Hence Paul can say, " Though 

 I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and 

 though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all 

 mysteries and all knowledge ; and though I have all 

 faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not 

 love, I am nothing." And John goes, if possible, even 

 farther and says, " Every one that loveth is born of 



