knowledge, such a person may be ever learning but “never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.” Talk has its place; it must not be allowed to crowd out listening and diligent personal study.—Eccl. 10:14; Prov. 10:14, AT.

The unproductive ever-learner usually has curiosity; he may just want knowledge for selfish purposes. Or it may be that he does not take time to digest what he learns. That requires thinking and applying learning to oneself. Sometimes it is a matter of curiosity coupled with a flabby will. One must learn to make decisions. The biggest decision a person must make in life is whether to serve Jehovah and his Son. Said Jesus: “He that is not on my side is against me.” It takes courage to decide for truth. But God gives “not a spirit of cowardice, but that of power and of love.”—Matt. 12:30; 2 Tim. 1:7, NW.

Life depends on growing up spiritually. There is no time to waste. Learn how to learn.

The Real Book of Freedom

Does it sound strange that the truth in a book can make men free? How can it do this, and why? This article answers.

“WHY should man need a book to be free today?” you may ask. “Does not the world have greater political understanding, more liberties, greater knowledge and more extensive education than ever before?” Indeed, knowledge has increased and literacy and the means of spreading information have expanded at a tremendous pace. But still, in a real sense, the world is neither physically nor mentally free.

The world is not free when more than one out of every three of its people—nearly a billion persons—are under the control of totalitarian communism, and when smaller totalitarian systems continue to exist even within the so-called “free world.”

Nor is the world free while wars and threats of wars hang ominously over its head and while so much of the resources of nations is directed either toward aggression or defense.

Nor is the world really free as long as slavish anxieties, neuroses and mental illnesses hold so many people in bondage that the president’s commission for the study of national health recently called emotional disabilities the United States’ foremost health problem.

Nor can the world really say it is free as long as religious falsehood and moral bankruptcy hold it in bondage to error and corruption. People are not really free who are held in subjection to false religious traditions. Yet so many contradictory things are taught in today’s churches that some of them must be false. In the