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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 14, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 25.

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UNBELIEF DISSIPATED.

There are now multitudes of inquirers who need to be dealt with as Mr. Patrick, of Scotland, dealt with a woman who had been long anxious, but seemed to obtain no relief.
Placing himself beside her, and looking steadily in her face, he said,
“Do you believe the Bible?”
“I do,” she replied.
“Can ye tell me wha made the world?”
She smiled a little contemptuously, and after a pause said, “It was God!”
To which he immediately replied,
“How d’ye ken? Were ye there to see?”
She seemed surprised, perceiving that there was evidently more meant by the question than she had supposed, and then remarked,
“No, I was not there, but the word of God says that he made it.”
“Ah, well, you believe a’ the Bible says, d’ye?”
She said, “Yes.”
“Ah, well, we’ll see. ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.’ Who says that?”
“The Father.”
“Weel, will ye do as the Father bids ye? He commands ye to hear the Son.”
To this she assented.
“Weel, then, what does the Son say? ‘Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.’ ‘Come unto me and I will give you rest.’ ‘Daughter, thy sins, which are many, are all forgiven thee,’ and will he not say the same to you? Is he no saying it even the noo? ye dinna believe that, ye dinna believe him. I tell ye, ye dinna believe a’ the Bible.”
She instantly saw the shame and sin of not trusting in a promising, present Redeemer, and at once ventured on his mercy and found the peace she sought.