Development Toward What

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 16.

Development Toward What

Development Toward What.— In mechanics, in physics, in mathematics, in many things temporal and worldly, the tendency is toward greater and greater complexity, we almost wrote perplexity; for perplexity grows out of complexity. This is also true in religious work; and complexity in religious work brings far more perplexity than in worldly matters. Religious work, religious plans, ought to tend to simplicity. Rules of medical men are very many and complex, yet the rules of health are few and simple. Rules of medieval and scholastic theology are many, intricate, and obscure, while the conditions of eternal life as set forth in the Gospel of Christ are sure and simple. Then, brother in the Lord, study simplicity.