Give a Reason | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 14.

Give a Reason.

If a child be asked why it is doing a certain thing, it will be very likely to answer, "Because." This answer is generally regarded as an evidence that there is no cause, or that if there be a reason for the action, the child does not know of it. If an adult should give such a reply, we should know that he had no reason to give. But if either the child or the adult should return the answer, "Because I do," we should say that he was either unreasonable or impudent. Now for the application. We ask people why they follow certain practices in religion, and the answer is, "Because it is the custom of the Christian world." What is this but saying, Because we do? Ought not reasonable people to abandon a practice for which they can give no better reason than that? "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thess. 5:21. And "sanctify the Lord God in your heart; and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." 1 Peter 3:15.