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Hold Fast to Truth

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 3, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 47.

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Hold Fast to Truth

God's Word — His Book — is clear and simple and plain in all the great moral verities which enter into conduct and character. There are questions in eschatology and prophecy over which candid, devout, loyal hearts may differ; but they ought not to differ over the necessity of simple faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ our Lord and the obligation of faithful obedience to all God's righteous commandments. We may call "Philosophy" and "Tradition" divine, and write them with initial capitals, but if either or both swerve us from the truth, they are enemies of the would-be child of God. Tennyson has truly sung:
"Hold thou the truth; define it well, For fear divine philosophy Shall push beyond the mark, and be Procurees to the lords of hell."