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Safeguarding the Future

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Safeguarding...11 Another bit of vital knowledge will be gained when one seeks to know God. Anyone can find among his fellows some who are weaker than he, oth- ers who are more degenerate. No one, however, will be satisfied with his character, his achievements, or his standing among his fellows when once he has learned from God the nature of moral perfection and has discover- ed from Him the meaning of true achievement, whether in the mental or moral or spiritual realm. However honest, sober, industrious, patri- otic, charitable and morally good one may be, he will find in knowing the Holy One of Israel no encouragement to cease his efforts to grow in all the graces which make for perfected character. Everyone needs to know the Infinite and to learn about the perfection which His hand designed. George Washington Carver, humble but great scientist, was the modern apos- tle of that great truth. Mankind has an inescapable need for a sourcebook from which to draw satisfying information regarding fundamental facts about rational exist- ence and its ultimate goal. Throughout the slow-moving and often dis- graceful centuries too many leaders have sought to eliminate the super- natural and to by-pass God in their efforts to appease the innate hunger of man for knowledge about origins, and to account for the strange out- reach of the soul for that which nature alone does not supply. Too of- ten have such people ridiculed or ignored the inherent, inescapable need for worship, Too...

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