Unbelief

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 22, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 34.

Unbelief.—A writer of some prominence has said: “If the prize for giving up unclean food were a million pounds at the end of a year, how rapidly would difficulties disappear and ways be found for keeping the body alive without meat and wine! But when only the priceless treasures of the higher life are offered, the difficulties are insuperable. If men really desired what they pretend to desire, we should have much more rapid changes around us than we now see. But they make believe, and make believe so effectually, that they deceive themselves into the idea that they are in earnest.” Faith does not walk by sight. Unbelief is the soul of fleshly sense. If men would but put forth the effort to win through Christ eternal life that they do to win the trifling things of this life, how few would fail. Now, how few win.