Easy to Faith by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 20, 1913

Easy to Faith

By W. A. S.

WORLDLY wisdom makes very difficult the things that are easy to faith. A writer in the Outlook, dealing with religious experience in children, tells the following story:—

The other day I heard a little girl recounting to her young uncle, learned in the higher criticism, the story of the creation. “Just only six days it took God to make everything,” she said; “think of that!”

“My dear child,” remonstrated her uncle, “that isn’t the point at all—the amount of time it required! As a matter of fact, it took thousands of years to make the world. The word day, in that connection, means a certain period of time, not twenty-four hours.”

“O!” cried the little girl in disappointment, “that takes all the wonderfulness out of it!”

“Not at all,” protested her young uncle. “And, supposing it did, can you not see that the world could not have been made in six of our days?”

“Why,” said the child in surprise, “I should think it could have been!”

“For what reason?” her uncle asked, in equal amazement.

“Because God was doing it!” the child exclaimed.

Her uncle did not at once reply. When he did, it was to say, “You are right about that, my dear.”

Truly, many a thing that is hid from the wise and prudent is easily understood by those who are but babes in worldly wisdom. The child’s belief in a God that could do things allowed of no difficulties or impossibilities. The theories of the evolutionary or million-year development of this earth are designed merely to take away “the wonderfulness” of the workings of God in creation and salvation. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” It is easy to understand it, “because God was doing it,” as the little child said. W. A. S.