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faith in those who were doubting, they made admission of their
own uncertainty as to whether the word of God or the discoveries of
science falsely so-called were true.
Those who were truly conscientious have been made to waver
in their faith because of the hesitation of those who were professed
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expositors of the Bible when they dealt with the living oracles. Satan
has taken advantage of the uncertainty of the mind, and through
unseen agencies he has crowded in his sophistries and has caused
men to become befogged in the mists of skepticism.
Learned men have given lectures in which have been mingled
truth and error; but they have unbalanced the minds of those who
leaned toward error instead of toward truth. The nicely woven
sophistries of the so-called wise men have a charm for a certain
class of students; but the impression that these lectures leave upon
the mind is that the God of nature is restricted by His own laws.
The Theory of Nature’s Immutability
The immutability of nature has been largely dwelt upon, and
skeptical theories have been readily adopted by those whose minds
chose the atmosphere of doubt because they were not in harmony
with God’s holy law, the foundation of His government in heaven
and earth. Their natural tendency to evil made it easy for them to
choose false paths and to doubt the reliability of both the Old and
the New Testament’s records and history.
Poisoned with error themselves, they have watched every oppor-
tunity to sow the seeds of doubt in other minds. Nature is exalted
above the God of nature, and the simplicity of faith is destroyed;
for the foundation of faith is made to appear uncertain. Befogged
in skepticism, the minds of those who doubt are left to beat on the
rocks of infidelity.—
The Youth’s Instructor, January 31, 1895
A Right Knowledge of God
I have a message to bear to those who feel sure that they are
prepared to do medical missionary work. Do those engaged in
this work realize that we are nearing the end of this earth’s history,
and that we should understand fully the work before us? The very