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Tradition and Truth

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 23, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 37.

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Tradition and Truth

Tradition is worth listening to when it comes of honorable ancestry, but tradition is not conclusive. Test it by eternal truth. If it will not bear the test of the crucible, reject it and follow truth. It is not by tradition that we are saved, but by truth. Tradition alone is a dead band, connecting us, through a dead and sometimes honorable past, to oftentimes a dishonorable origin. This is preeminently true of the doctrine of the soul's inherent immortality. Truth is a living channel of life uniting us to a living God, and One who is mighty to save.