Faith Beyond Superstition

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 37.

Faith Beyond Superstition

It may not be of the nature of doubt to have no faith in superstition or to turn from credulity. It is only the manifestation of faith and its reason to do this. The man who has the money, and learns of railway facilities, will not trust a cripple to carry him across the continent. His good judgment is not a product of doubt in the cripple, but of belief in the better way of transportation. The man who rejects the pilgrimages, and bones, and holy water, and priestly rigamarole of the Dark Ages, and goes forward by faith in the power of God through His Word, does not make progress by reason of his doubt; his rejection of superstition and his subsequent progress are fruits of his faith.