The Proof | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

The Proof.

SOME years ago, a Frenchman, who, like many of his countrymen, had won a high rank among men of science, yet denied the God who is the author of all science, was crossing the Great Sahara, in company with an Arab guide. He noticed with a sneer that at certain times his guide, whatever obstacles might arise, put them all aside, and, kneeling on the burning sand, called on his God. Day after day passed, and the Arab never failed; till at last, one evening, the philosopher, when he arose from his knees, asked him, with a contemptuous smile: “How do you know there is any God?” The guide fixed his burning eye on the scoffer for a moment, in wonder, and then said solemnly: “How do I know there is a God? How did I know that a man and a camel passed my hut last night in the darkness? Was it not by the print of his foot in the sand? Even so,” and pointed to the sun, whose last rays were shining over the lonely desert, “that foot-print is not of man.”