FAITH VS. PRACTICE.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 13, 1870

FAITH VS. PRACTICE.—

A practical philanthropist, who picks drunkards out of the mire, gets them washed and clothed, and restored to their right minds, once visited a poor widow on a cold winter day. “Have faith in Christ,” said one, “he will help you.” Quoth the practical man, “It is not faith in Christ she lacks; she has as much of that as you or I; it is wood she stands in need of. Her faith will not save her with the thermometer at zero. Do you think the Saviour will come and tip up two feet of wood at her door? No such thing. She has got faith, but wants fire-wood.”

The missionary went his way; there was no more that he could do. The practical man had the wood there in an hour.