Faith and Works | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1873

Faith and Works.

THEY are the two oars of a boat. Row with the right oar alone, and the boat describes a useless circle on the water. Row with the left oar alone, and it merely goes in the opposite direction. But use both oars with equal force, and it moves swiftly and evenly forward.

Faith and works: they are the two wings of a bird. Using but the right wing, the bird flutters helplessly on the earth. Using the left wing alone, there is the same result. But flying both with equal vigor, it plumes its flight heavenward.

So faith alone, or works alone, distract the soul—bind it in helplessness to earth, or turn it in idle circles; but give faith and works in equal strength, and movement is uniform! “What God has joined together let no man put asunder. —American Messenger.