p. 200 | How Men Deceive Themselves by J. G. Woolley

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 13.

How Men Deceive Themselves

By J. G. Woolley

WHEN one fails he does so by deceiving himself or somebody else. The disciples failed to cure the boy with a dumb spirit, because their prayers and fasts had not been genuine. The people of Israel failed to enter Canaan because they deceived themselves into believing that a man’s quality is according to his size. The men of Babel deceived themselves and each other by the idea that heaven is accessible by a steeple, and that civic virtue can be built of “brick and slime.” And many a man to-day, and many a church, would be full of faith and power, but that they say, “What will become of my brick—how can I utilize my slime?”—J. G. Woolley.