Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not-safe to know.'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2, 12 January 1905, Page 19

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not- safe to know.'

For our good, God has hidden the future from our eyes. Those sun who seek to lift the veil from tomorrow or next week or next year by the arts of the fortune-teller. ' Certainly it is possible,' says a writer jn the ' Catholic World,' ' ior Almighty God to tell our fortunes ; He knows them ; it is a necessary part of His omniscience. But can we seriously believe, even for a moment, that the Lord is going to do this by means ot tea leaves or a pack of cards, or any other part ol tihe fiortune-teller's outfit ? No one surely does or can imagine such a thing. Nor can we imaguie that the holy angels or the saints in heaven, who share to some extent in the knowledge ot God, are going to use such means. No ; a thousand times no! If God wills to reveal everything to us, He will do it by means of prophets evidently inspired by Ham, or at any rate in some way worthy of His glory and majesty. We can then confidently say that any real or genuine fortune telling is the work of the devil. By fortune telling I mean all forecasting of the future, which does not come trom any real scientific or expert knowledge ot the subject in general— such kiruowledge as the astronomer, the weather man or the Wall street man obviously has. 'io try then, seriously, to ascertain the future by tortune telling is implicitly to invoke the devil.'