The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-17

| have always used the best Java and Moch
| IN our family, but am free TO say 1 ~ llh
the GRAIE-O MS well as the Dest couee
ever drank Respectfully yours,
A. G. JACKSON. n: p:
denied the shelter of agnostlclsm u
King Agrippa. when he demanded o
him-"Kinr Agrippa, belieVest thou tn
prophets?" and Immediately added, :"
know that thou believest' Inc hioa
ern agnostic would have said, L 90 no
know whether there were any ptopliet'
to be believed" Paul, however dlo
find one party of agnostics at Ephesus
but whose agnosticism he speedlly pu
to fight. You Will remember that or
one occasion the apostle found llttlt
company of about dozen men there
who had received only the paptlsn o.
John, and Paul put to them the ah-lth
pCrtant question, Ibid you receive the
Holy Ghost when We believed! Anc
they didn't know anything ABOUT II;
they had not even heard that the Holy
Ghost was Given. But they We're not
content to remain in that state; they
wanted all that was for them. Then
Paul Instructed them in the truths OF
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the path Of duty open out before them
they were only TOO glad to walk IN IT,
Then they were baptised into the name
of the Lord Jesus, and when he fuftner
laid his hands upon them the Holy
Spirit came on them and they spake
with tongues. and prophesied, Jesus
had said long before this that IF any
man willeth to do His will, he shall
know of the teaching, whether 1t be or
God" and that is the most speedy cure
for all forms Of agnosticism ana OF
doubt, to begin at once to do the VIII
Of God Just so far and just so fast as
that will shall gradually unfold before
you.
The weakest and the most untenable
position for an intelligent man to take
Is that of protest igno;ance-to say, II
| don't know" to every truth presented,
and then to make that assumed lgnof-
ance an excuse for every kind or neg
| lect to search out the truth. While we
believe that some truths are seit-reVeal-
ed and self-evident so that the mind
| grasps them as soon as 1t perce1Ves
them, oil truths are not so.
| Light is self-revealed-you see 1T as
soon as you open your eyes-open your
eyes and you will see it-you cannot
help tits a law of your being which
your cannot change. So 1t Is that some
truths are perceived by the mind, but
not all The tenor Of the Bible isl
may say. the promise of God is, that
YOU shall find Him when you search for
Him; when you search for Him with
,,n rt 10,
not the one who declares that he does
MT know whether he will or not; he
finds who seeks. not the one who
doubts whether there Is anything to
look after; he enters the open door who
knocks, not the one who doubts wheth-
e,. there s any door there and declares
he doesn't know whether he is knock
ing upon a door that Will open, or up
on n wall that will only bruise his
hands. The man who will search after
God and really wants to know Him as
earnestly as though searching for hid
treasure-as though searching for
lost coin-sas though seeking pearl of
great price, upon the finding of which
he has staked everything, will not look
in vain: but the man who stands under
the over-arching dome of truth and de-
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