Yet man boasts of his wisdom. God waits, the ages pass, and time and space and matter and motion and life and death join to tell us that only God is wise. 3. Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity. Grant that men possess perpetual being, and the preciousness of every earthly treasure is gone instantly. God is to our eternal being what our
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