error of its borrowed plumes, and transform the universe into a home of marvellous light, — “a consummation devoutly to be wished.”
Error says: “God must know evil because He knows all things;” but Holy Writ declares, God told our first parents that in the day when they should partake of the fruit of evil, they must surely die. Would it not absurdly follow that God must perish, if He knows evil, and evil necessarily leads to extinction? Rather let us think of Godas saying: “I am Infinite Good; therefore I know not evil. Dwelling in Light, I can see only the brightness of My own Glory.”
Error may say that God can never save man from sin, if He knows and sees it not; but God says: “I am too pure to behold iniquity, and yet I save man from everything that is unlike Myself.”
Many fancy that our Heavenly Father reasons thus: “If pain and sorrow were not in My Mind, I could not put them away, and wipe the tears from the eyes of My children.” Error says: “You must know grief in order to console it.” Is this true? Do we not oftenest console others in troubles that we have outgrown? Is not our comforter always from outside and above ourselves?
