Conscience and Divine Revelation

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 10.

Conscience and Divine Revelation

If conscience were a sufficient guide, man needs not a revelation. But conscience is not a sure guide. All the history of man affirms that it is not. Conscience is the creature of education. The Hindoo mother's conscience is satisfied when her babe is thrown into the river Ganges. And so with every false religion which has existed on the earth. That conscience only is good which is cleansed and enlightened by Christ and his Holy Spirit. That conscience which follows its own way, and is contrary to the principles of God's truth, is an evil conscience.