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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1871

FAITH

—When Charles V. imperiously required the Confession of Augsburg to be abandoned, and gave the Protestant leaders only six months more in which to make up their minds finally, the cause of the Reformation was thought hopeless. But Luther exclaimed: “I saw a sign in the heavens, out of my window at night; the stars, the hosts of heaven, held up in a vault above me; and yet I could see no pillars on which the Master made it to rest. But I had no fear it would fall. Some men look above for the pillars, and would fain touch them with their hands, as if afraid the sky would fall. Poor souls! Is not God always there?”—Dr. Gill.