"Except ye be converted and
become as a little child, ye shall not enter the kingdom of God.”
Q: What
kind of children is mentioned?
A: Little children.
---Little children have
not much pride of opinion of their own.
---Grown up ones are not so ready
to learn.
There is another verse
that tells us the same thing and perhaps in a more forcible manner.
“And
if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he
ought to know it.”
1 Cor. 8:2.
Q: How many people does that cover?
A: ... all of us.
Q: How deep then are the thoughts expressed in the Scriptures?
A: Eternal.
So then we are to learn the truth only, no difference who speaks
it,—the Lord will speak it, of course — no difference by whom it is
spoken, or the way it comes; if we knew it before, thank God
somebody else knows it now: If we did not know it before, then thank the
Lord we now know it.
----The only thing to ask is, Is it true?
I remember once in a camp-meeting a brother read some scriptures right
straight through—it was about all he did do; it was a Bible reading; —
but the thoughts he brought out in the Bible reading were new to a large
number in the audience.
About half a dozen came in a flock to me and
asked, “Well, now, Brother Jones, what do you think about that?”
I said,
“It is none of your business what I think about it; what do you think
about it yourself?”
“Well, we do not know what to think about it,” they
replied.
Then I said, “Find out.”
-Suppose I had said I do not believe
it; then they would have gone off and said, “I do not believe that,
because Brother Jones said he did not.”
-Suppose I had said it was so;
they would have said, “That is so; Brother Jones says that is so.”
So I
propose to tell you nothing about what I think.
It is none of your
business: you know for yourselves what is the truth." A.T. Jones