Perplexing, saddening, distracting, is the aspect of the world, apart from the understanding created by the Scriptures of truth. In vast masses, ignorance ; in other masses (with a certain superficiality of knowledge), unbelief—invincible, stolid and spiritless. In a more limited class, education, but with spiritual impotence, helpless know-nothing—agnosticism professed as a creed with a certain complacent superiority. In another section, religious faith, without much sincerity, or much intelligence. In a smaller class, sincerity and even anxiety, but with little scriptural knowledge, and consequent unrest and bewilderment. A very few (oh, so few) know the Scriptures, study them daily, understand them, believe them and are able to give answerable reasons for their faith on all points—with the result of being disowned and distressed by both “masses and classes.”
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One