"Let us call each other's spiritual senses into exercise, but not seek either to frighten or to school others into our way of thinking. Let us, beloved, get the apostle's spirit as well as his knowledge. Let us, as another has said, 'aim to gather knowledge more from meditation than from study, and have it dwell in us, not as opinions, but as food of communion, the quickener of hope and refreshment of the kingdom of God within us.' Let us esteem it holier to confess difficulties than to grapple with them in the ingenuity of strength of intellect. When some fond thought is made the great object, it soon works itself into a central place:the ardor of the soul is disturbed, and the godly edifying of the saints hindered.

"We have to remember that knowledge is only a part of the field of our husbandry (2 Pet. i:5-7); it needs to be regulated rather than gratified. Many who have far less of it than others have more abundant and richer fruits in service and personal love to the Lord. May the Lord deepen in all His saints the power of His redeeming love, to shed among us the savor of His precious and honored Name."