Culture.
By G.W.S. Ware.
July 6, 1938
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One meaning of culture is. The training or refining of the moral or intellectual
faculties.
Man, of all created beings , need culture most. He is endowed with great possibilities
for it, but gains little of it by instinct. It has required all the generations of man,
back to Adam, to reach their present point of culture; hence, culture is the accumulated
experience of all generations of men; and blind is the man to his own interest, who will
not be attracted by it. Back of the highest culture of men, is God, the source of all
culture worth the name. The applied principles of Satan, carried out to logical results is
never regarded as culture by men or angels. Any one who is careless, indifferent, or
wilfully opposed to training and refining his moral and intellectual faculties, is headed
for destruction; for it is criminal, to neglect the talents God has entrusted one with;
the result of which is the loss of them, never to be regained (Matt.25:28,39).
A person, who thinks he has culture and has it not, deceives no one but himself, and
some of the densely ignorant of his fellows; and futhermore, such a person cannot take on
real culture, with such an opinion about himself. No one can wish himself cultured, and
stop with that; and yet no one has made progress, without starting from that point.
No one has reached the height of culture during earthly life; if any think they have,
is evidence, that they are not half way up. The height of culture is not in this world,
from the evident fact, no one has the capacity to contain it, for God is the height of
culture for men. Angels, may have been created on the height of culture for angels; and
Satan and his host, fallen from their culture, made themselves demon, with no culture to
attain, and that is outside of refinement, in utter darkness.
