Excerpt from New, Sharp Threshing Instrument, Having Teeth: New-York, June, 1868

Why should any man, any where among men, be con sidered a savat, a wise man, a discoverer, a man of knowledge, a scientific man, an inventor, abenefactor to human families? Is it because he seeks truth and hates a lie? God is truth. It is of these earnest lovers of truth, the studious, thinking, careful, working men, who worship their own Creator, the question is asked why it is the white man appears to this generation the leader in all these newly developed treasures? Will any American searching for true knowledge feel any interest in these words from his own Bible: But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words and, seal the book to the time of the end, many shall mm to and fro and know ledge shall be increased. Are not all these wonders a never failing promise of the ever-living God to His children? All men every where who carefully reject what you find to be spurious and cling to that you find'to be true, useful and elevating, as a treasure to be remembered, has no one informed you, has not your own mind suggested that you are a worshipper of God, your own Creator, and God is truth you study with divine love for those who seek Him through His wonder f ul works or His marvellous Word? God draws the lover of His works to His Word. Y'm hate a lie, an impo sitiou-upon your neighbors, you may learn God hates a lie, that the devil is father of lies, father of the very assertions you labor so hard to test and so boldly de nounce as false. It is not generally the activity but indolence of the human mind that is most liable to be. Imposed upon by the lies and deceit of unprincipled men whose fraudulent designs and wicked imagination mocks your unwearied studies by a semblance of truth spread over the world in advance of your toil to dispel their errors and false teaching of mankind too lazy, too superstitious, too sensuahtoo gross, too stupid, too self-willed to think studiously. The miserable liars in this world who appear ambitious of taking a place among the careful and learned teachers of men, the studious and thoughtful, the honorable unselfish wor shippers of truth. (our God, our Father, our King is truth, Creator of the whole, seen, all unseen, unknown to His children, ) will have an opportunity of making an important discovery, no less than their active ser vice of the devil, the spirit of evil before God and man.

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