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The Effect of Evidence

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 8.

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The Effect of Evidence

THE real effect of evidence depends a great deal on something in one's own mind. Some prejudice, some wish, some willfulness, some sin will often spoil the force of the clearest evidence. While some persons look first of all at the main proofs in a large, willing, wholehearted, comprehensive sort of way, others are perpetually nibbling at the fringes of things, conjuring up a hundred petty objections, keeping faith in waiting, one foot in the air, till every difficulty that may be thought of shall have been answered. And oftener than otherwise the objections that seem so mighty would, with just a little more knowledge, wholly vanish.—Congregationalist.