We Have Reason for Great Confidence.
By B. F. Merritt
RETURNING from our good camp-meeting this spring, our little company desired to pass through the city of Galesburg. None of us were acquainted with the road. When some thirty or thirty-five miles from the city we began to inquire for the direct road. There were many roads of equal plainness, and it was very easy for us to mistake the right one. We availed ourselves of the best means we could, to determine the right way, and trustingly pursued our journey. As we advanced, the road began to appear plainer. Other roads came into it. We began to notice many tokens assuring us that we were right. We were traveling a thoroughfare, and the posters and writings on the fences, &c., showed that we were nearing a city, and it was Galesburg. But as we advanced, the evidences that we were right increased. We began to hear the shrill whistle of engines, and the rumbling of cars, and the black smoke could be seen rising in the distance. Could any one make us believe we were wrong now? No; we felt assured that we were right. So when we first saw rays of light on present truth, we did not feel assured. We saw, as it were, “Men as trees walking.” We could then have been easily misdirected. But as we have advanced, the way of truth has become plainer. New truths harmonizing with, and making clearer, the first ones we saw, have appeared to us, till we now see such a connected chain of beautiful, harmonious truth, we feel assured. And when we look abroad and see how the material world, the sun, moon, and stars, atmosphere elements, old ocean and groaning earth, together with the race of man, all attest the faithful word, we have strong reasons for great confidence. B. F. MERRITT.