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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 5

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Believing, but not Understanding.

“I WILL not believe anything but what I understand,” said a self-confident young man in a hotel one day.
“Nor will I,” said another.
“Neither will I,” chimed in a third.
“Gentlemen,” said one well known to me, who was on a journey, and who sat close by, “do I understand you correctly that you will not believe any thing that you don’t understand?”
“I will not,” said one, and so said each one of the trio.
“Well,” said the stranger, “in my ride this morning I saw some geese in a field eating grass; do you believe that?”
“Certainly,” said the three unbelievers.
“I also saw the pigs eating grass; do you believe that?”
“Of course,” said the three.
“I also saw sheep and cows eating grass; do you believe that?”
“Of course,” was again replied.
“Well, but the grass which they had formerly eaten had, by digestion, turned to feathers on the backs of the geese, to bristles on the backs of the swine, to wool on the sheep, and on the cows it had turned to hair; do you believe that, gentleman?”
“Certainly,” they replied.
“Yes, you believe it,” he rejoined, “but do you understand it?”