Truth Unchangeable by Methodist Recorder

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Truth Unchangeable.

By Methodist Recorder

TRUTH is unchangeable. It never varies. A thing cannot be true to-day and false to-morrow. What is true at one time is always true. There is no progress in truth. Our perceptions of truth may become clearer and fuller, but the truth itself never changes—never varies. If two and two make four to-day, they will not make six to-morrow, or next week. If it is impossible for two parallel lines to meet to-day, it will always be impossible for them to meet.

So with every other truth, whether it be mathematical, moral, or religious. Truth never accommodates itself to the advanced thought of any age. Men may differ about the truth, they may change their relation to the truth, they may suppose that they have outgrown the truth, but, although this may affect them, it does not affect the truth. It is unchangeable and eternal. There are a great many unsettled things in the world, and things undergoing constant change. But truth is fixed and eternal, and never varies. Our great object should be to know and conform ourselves to the truth.

—Methodist Recorder.