not believe, surely ye shall not be estab- lished"—the force of the Hebrew is, " I f ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be confirmed in knowledge." Finally, obey. You never learn a second ^ lesson from God till you practice the first. In human universities you can go through ¡¡. and manage to get out and not know much more than when you went in. But not so m God's university. Under God's train- ing it is like mounting a ladder; you have to step on one rung before you can get to T 1 the next above it. And so our Lord says in John vii:17, " I f any man will do His !J f will, he shall know of the doctrine.'' If . you have a doubt of h o ly Scripture it is
pi obably linked with disobedience. Come in the spirit of obedience and bow before the authority of this word; whatever you see here in the nature of a command, put if, into conduct and character; whatever you see as a precept, translate it into prac- tice. Obey what God teaches, and He will lc-ad you into larger knowledge of Himself and of His commandments, so that you shall find that, by searching and meditat- ing and'comparing; by praying and be- lieving and obeying, you are enabled to see in this Book its Divine Author, to see in this Book the remedy for your fallen and depraved estate and nature, and to come into the deepest knowledge and un- derstanding of its inscrutable mysteries. Why I Reject the "Helping Hand" of
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are practically the Bible itself.' , He de- clares them to be in such a sense " t h e light of the Scriptures," that "people can- not see the Divine Plan in studying the Bible by i t s e l f ." Indeed, he declares that i | one ,after obtaining the interpretation of the Bible from his Studies, then makes use of the Bible alone without the Studies, " w i t h in two years he goes into darkness," whereas " i f he had merely read the Studies with their references, and had not read a page of the Bible, as such, he would be in the light at the end of two y e a r s ." It follows, then, that our only .light is the Russellized Bible, and that the Word of God never was the lamp to one's feet, the light to one's path, until it became Rus- sellized. 2. He represents God as purposelv se- creting irom human knowledge throughout the past six thousand years the most vital truths of revelation. Not only does he claim to be the first reliable and exhaust- ive interpreter of .the Scriptures, but also claims that by God's express plan his teachings are " t h e light now first d u e ." He denies that the writers of Scripture un- derstood at all reliably or largely their own utterances; he asserts that nineteen centuries of Bible study and teaching have progressed mostly in " t h e smoke," and
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