Knowledge Puffeth up 
God created man and placed him 
in a garden to dress it and to keep 
it, and told him he could eat of 
every tree of the garden, except the 
tree of the knowledge of good and 
evil. Of that tree He said: “In the 
day thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die.’”? But Satan told them 
that if they ate of that tree their 
eyes would be opened, and they 
would be as gods, knowing good and 
evil. We are all painfully aware of 
the results. Satan launched the race 
on a course of becoming as gods by 
the acquistion of knowledge. Today 
this doctrine is preached as never 
before. All the world needs, we are 
told, is more education and all its 
ills will be cured. The devil’s lie is 
almost universally believed, tho 
6,000 years of the acquisition of 
knowledge leaves the world in a 
worse condition than at any time in 
its history. Solomon said, 3,000 
years ago, that the increase of 
knowledge increaseth sorrow. A 
few years ago a prone of prominent 
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