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Go To Morning Reading Evening, September 25 “Who of God is made unto us wisdom.” —1 Corinthians 1:30 Man’s intellect seeks after rest and, by nature, seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Even when converted, men of education are apt to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net where the Grecians were taken and hankered to mix philosophy with revelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified and invent a more intellectual doctrine, as the term is. This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism and bewitched them with many heresies. This is the root of Neology and the other fine things that were so fashionable in Germany and are now so ensnaring to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, a good reader, and whatever your education may be if you are the Lord’s, you will find no rest in philosophizi...