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the representative OF humanity at large. They
all ask the question In ten thousand ways, What
IS TRUTH Some ask from mere curiosity; some
from sincere desire to know what the truth is.
Tue world is searching for the truth In other
directions than that which would lead toward
the answer OF Christ It is the truth of the tnn,l
enccs and experiences that are about every one's
lie, TINT they are reaching after, rs wcllas the
the Philosophers stone to every human being.
Ftlate, unknoWlng rejecting Christis also tiIe
type OF humanity. Hc hath no greater sin than
has been partakcn by all, who, because thev
nave nor inquired, know not wAo Jesus is. or
whence He came, OF the nature OF His kingdom,
OF the reality OF that truth to which he came to
ne witness. And yet there are none who ask
tne question In sincerity, or seek for the knowl-
cage inquired Of, earnestly, but have been
answered, and have found what they SOUGHT
for.
The Importance Of truth has never vet been
realized. There has been more inquiry as to
Wnat truth is, than for ANYTHING else on which
information Is needed. Legislators, statesmen,
)urlsts, tnoralists SCIENTISTS explorers, investi-
gators, dtscoyerers, and inventors, students Of
all kinds, have ever been trying to solve the
question on one point or the other, what is the
truth: To solve the question as to the points
Of their inquiry, Is to gain the object OF their
pursuit; 10 get at the truth OF anything and
everything Is to get at the foundation Of all
things. To get there is to lind the place OF rest
1or every disturbing element in the universe
The truth will settle every commotion of the
present, and hush forever the conflict Of the
ages. No wonder, then, when Divine Being
came into this world With an important message
and revelation to make, that Tie declared It to
be the truth, and asserted that He was person.
ally the witness OF that truth.
There are various definitions to this word
there are various senses In which the term is
the opposite Of the lie, the positive pole of the
sentiment OF which the negative is falsehood.
The dictionaries say that truth is veracity, and
give notifications Of the definition, rs honesty,
Justice. integrity fidelity, the conformity to fact
or reality, agreement OF words with thoughts,
which Is called moral truth. These are all ap-
propriate definitions, md help us to conceive
what nm excellent thing truth is. But there is
still higher sense in which it may be received.
Truth is the perfect reality of all things. Truth
material to the spiritual world. Truth may be
called the science Of thcknowfedgc OF divine and
spiritual things. It was truth in this sense Of
which Jesus: said Hc came into this world to be
witness. It was the light Of the Divine ex-
istence; in other terms, truth Is the knowledge
Of God revealed to human comprehension with
the correlative relation Of the human being to
the divine; the nature, destiny, and moral re-
most ennob]ing which can possess the human
mind, so it seems to be the embodiment OF
Truth. Therefore God is called the Spirit of
Truth; Christ, as the representative OF God in
the world, says Of Himself, II am the Way, the
Father @ that he Would sanctiiy His children
through His truth" The answer to PLATE,
What is truth9 might have been: the knowledge
of the One, True, and Holy God and the salva-
tion Of the race OF man, through His Son, from
life and immortality which alone are the
attributes Of the Deity. This revelation
Of eternal facts, so much above all ordinary per-
ception Of the human being, SO important as