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Truth in the Minority

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 21, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 13.

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Truth in the Minority.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THE strongest argument some men have against the truth is, that the majority do not believe it. This they think is sufficient evidence that it is not true. But if they will look at the history of the past, they will find that the truth of God has always been in the minority in this world. Jesus said, “Fear not, little flock.” Narrow is the way to life, few walk in it; but broad is the way to death, and many are in that road. The following words from the great philosopher, John Locke, are so much to the point that I copy them. “An error,” says he, “is not the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected; and if it were put to the vote anywhere in the world, I doubt, as things are managed, whether truth would have the majority, at least whilst the authority of men, and not the examination of things, must be its measure.”—Essay on the Understanding, book iv, chap. iii, p. 64.
D. M. CANRIGHT.