The Wisdom of this World 43 has revealed or can reveal Himself in His Word, His Son, His Spirit. The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. We have the right to demand of the Wisdom of this World by what authority it asserts that there is nothing above and apart from Nature, nothing in all the boundless universe except matter and force. Why shall we give up all that man holds dear at the bidding of the Wisdom of this World whose highest, and best, and latest revelation is “a grave without a resurrection, and a universe without a God” ! THE FAILURE OF EARTHLY WISDOM TO FIND AND KNOW GOD The man of faith does not affirm the uselessness of earth ly wisdom, but he does affirm that it has utterly failed to find out and know the true and living God. However useful and valuable the Wisdom of this World may be in its appropriate sphere, it has never yet given to men that knowledge of God upon which his soul could rest in satisfaction and peace. The World by Wisdom has never known God. At no time, in no country, among no people, has man, by wisdom, ever been able to make God known to his fellow men. Without the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the true and living God had ever been the “Unknown God”. ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD The wise men of this generation are not backward in boasting of the world’s present progress and wisdom, and yet the history and ruins of the old world, before the coming of our Lord, reveal evidences of a civilization that will bear all the light and tests of our day. Egypt, situated on the banks of that strange river whose source has been discovered far off in the ever-flowing waters of the Victoria Lake of equatorial Africa, speaks ®trt to this self-satisfied generation in her mummied kings, her silent Sphinx, her matchless pyramids. Egypt, fhat could lift men-
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