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 gress in the knowledge of God. Yet we should not regard such knowledge the mere intellectual grasp of His love and nature, but also the interior knowing of Him through sensating His Divine Human nature in our lives among mankind.

The godly loves for father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, wife, neighbor, country, church, made hallowed by the consciousness of their sacred relations and uses, are God's love sensated in the human heart. As we experience these, attributing them to their divine source, God is known, for such are of God's nature.

Not to know God is not to know anything worth knowing, for the knowledge of God gives all other knowledge its value. Knowledge is permanently useful in the degree that it leads to and reveals God. For how much better is a white man with a gun than an Indian with a bow if his weapons are