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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 28.

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DON'T SPECULATE.

The Lord has never opened any field for religious speculation. He never intended any human mind to be active in that direction. The success of the Young Men's Christian Association, which recently held its jubilee convention in Boston, is attributed to the fact that “by the very nature and urgency of the work to which they were called, the young men who founded and have maintained the organization were kept back from speculative thinking, and held down to definite, practical work.” And as one writer observes, “That which was the necessity has become the glory of the association.”
Don’t speculate yourself; don’t listen to the speculations of others. The Lord did not design that people should speculate, but that they should know. The Guide into all truth is the Holy Spirit, and what the Spirit teaches. He knows with the most absolute certainty. Speculation is the sure road to spiritual error and disaster.