In this time of scientific enlightenment, with all the discoveries of science in medicine, inventions of machinery; with men fighting and pushing, even forcing their way to the highest pedestal in this life, some would persuade us that man will soon be able to perfect and perpetuate life here upon earth as he wills to do so; that man with his medical science will soon rid the world of all sickness and disease, and that the elements may be brought under his control so that he will be able to write finis to a life of peace and happiness.

But dear eternity-bound people, this is not true. And before you become unbalanced upon the precipice of conceit, and plunge into the abyss of sinful oblivion, only to hear the Lord say "depart from me—I never knew you," let me plead with you to Stop, Look and Listen to the warnings of the most High, before the night of death comes and "the light has gone out in your soul."

When we try to talk to those who are lost, about Christ and His plan of salvation for man, we almost invariably hear them say, "I don’t know how to study the Bible and can’t understand it."

So then if we yearn for that welcome smile and voice of Jesus, let us take the testimony of that great wisdom-clad and understandingly-shod prophet of old. Surely it will help us to gain wisdom and understanding. Hear him :—"But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith it is not in me; and the sea saith it is not in me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

"No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: For the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth the way thereof, and He knoweth the place thereof. For He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heavens; to make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightening of the thunder: then did He see it, and declare it: He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." (Job 28:12-28).

Again: "Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them; that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out." Lev. 20:22. "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them, I am the Lord your God." Lev. 19:31.

Let us then seek "wisdom which is from above."