Truth by C. P. | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 11, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 43.

Truth.

By C. P.

WHAT is truth? Webster says, "Conformity to reality or fact." To be true is to be just what you are, to say just what you feel, to act just as your nature prompts you. We can act a lie just as easily as we can speak one. We can keep up a sham or a pretense about half the things in our daily life. Don't do it. Be what you want to appear to be. Appear to be just what you are. "Buy the truth and sell it not." It is an important possession. He who knows the whole truth never falls into errors. He will have just conceptions. In every age, in every department of thought, men have been seeking for the truth. Slowly, laboriously, they clear away the vast mass of error and guesswork, and, step by step, find out exactly how things are. Sometimes the truth flashes out upon the mind with a wonderful light. It seems strange that we did not see it before, it is so plain and so simple. Some one has said, "The greatest simplicity is the greatest science;" for the greatest science is that which lies most nearly parallel with nature. Nature herself is truth.

How beautiful is a truthful character! one that has a high ideal, and tries with all its power to reach it as near as may be, with no pretense of being better, no false sham at not rising higher, but content to do and be just what its highest powers, in their best exercise, enable it to do and be. "I can do no other," said Luther; "God help me." For he was just following truth; and God did help him. "For he is a God of truth, and without iniquity; just and right is he."—C. P., in California Christian Advocate.