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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

A SUBLIME FAITH.—Faith rests with confidence on the word of God, assured that his promises cannot fail. When one has right views of the Divine character, he feels that he could sooner doubt his own existence than doubt the promises of God. The Bible itself furnishes no finer illustration of a sublime faith than the following reply of a poor Scotch woman to Rev. John Brown, of Haddington:

Mr. Brown had been pressing her with hard questions, to test her knowledge of the Scriptures, and the strength and depth of her piety. At last he asked:

“Janet, what if God, after all he has done, should break his promise and drop you into hell?”

The poor woman promptly replied: “Let him do e’en as he likes. If he does, he’ll lose mair than I do!”

It would be hard for any one to go beyond this in right conceptions of the faithfulness of God.