- The Times of Volume Eight
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- Chapter 12—A Departure from Right
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- Chapter 14—An Appeal to the Brethren in Battle Creek
- Chapter 15—A Neglected Warning
- Chapter 16—The Result of Reformation
- Chapter 17—A Solemn Warning
- Chapter 18—The Review and Herald Fire
- Chapter 19—What Might Have Been
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- A Hymn Of The Promised Land
- A Hymn Of The Captivity
- Song Of The Redeemed
- “Call to Remembrance the Former Days”
- “Written for our Admonition”
- The Message for this Time
- The Opposition of the Enemy
- The Loud Cry
- “And Hast Forgotten”
- “Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve”
- The Shield of Omnipotence
- Jehovah Reigneth
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- Chapter 29—Christ the Medium of Prayer and Blessing
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- Last-Day Deceptions
- Pantheistic Theories
- Fanaticism After 1844
- Past Experiences to be Repeated
- Beware of a Sensational Religion
- A Warning Against False Teaching
- Diverting Minds from Present Duty
- A Renewal of the Straight Testimony
- Seek the First Love
- The Word of God our Safeguard
- Study the Revelation
- To the Church in Sardis
- Message to the Philadelphia Church
- The Laodicean Message
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Man's Failure to Interpret Nature
Apart from Christ we are still incapable of interpreting rightly the language of nature. The most difficult and humiliating lesson that man has to learn is his own inefficiency in depending upon human wisdom, and the sure failure of his efforts to read nature correctly. Of himself he cannot interpret nature without placing it above God. He is in a condition similar to that of the Athenians, who, amidst their altars dedicated to the worship of nature, had one inscribed: “To the unknown God.” God was indeed unknown to them. He is unknown to all who, without the guidance of the divine Teacher, take up the study of nature. They will assuredly come to wrong conclusions.8T 257.2
In its human wisdom the world knows not God. Its wise men gather an imperfect knowledge of Him from His created works; but this knowledge, so far from giving them exalted conceptions of God, so far from elevating the mind and the soul, and bringing the whole being into conformity with His will, tends to make men idolaters. In their blindness they exalt nature and the laws of nature above nature's God.8T 257.3
God has permitted a flood of light to be poured upon the world in the discoveries of science and art; but when professedly scientific men reason upon these subjects from a merely human point of view, they are sure to err. The greatest minds, if not guided by the word of God, become bewildered in their attempts to investigate the relations of science and revelation. The Creator and His works are beyond their comprehension; and because these cannot be explained by natural laws, Bible history is pronounced unreliable.8T 257.4
Those who question the reliability of the Scripture records have let go their anchor and are left to beat about upon the rocks of infidelity. When they find themselves incapable of measuring the Creator and His works by their own imperfect knowledge of science, they question the existence of God and attribute infinite power to nature.8T 258.1
In true science there can be nothing contrary to the teaching of the word of God, for both have the same Author. A correct understanding of both will always prove them to be in harmony. Truth, whether in nature or in revelation, is harmonious with itself in all its manifestations. But the mind not enlightened by God's Spirit will ever be in darkness in regard to His power. This is why human ideas in regard to science so often contradict the teaching of God's word.8T 258.2