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IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 11, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 23.

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IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

The popular adage is: “O, it makes no difference what a man believes, if he is sincere!”
Let us see. A family was poisoned in Montgomery County recently by eating toadstools, which they sincerely believed to be mushrooms. Three of them died. Did it make no difference?
A man indorsed a note for a friend whom he sincerely believed to be an honest man. He was a scoundrel, and left him to pay the debt. Did it make no difference?
A traveler takes the wrong train going north, sincerely believing it is the southern train. Will it make no difference? Will he bring up at the south all the same?
If a man sincerely believes a certain thing, while the truth about it is entirely different, will this sincere belief make it all right?
The truth is, the popular adage is a lie, and a very transparent one at that. If a man is sincere, he will take pains to know the truth. For where facts are concerned, all the thinking in the world will not change them. A toadstool remains a toadstool, whatever we may think about it.—The Covenant.