What Ought to be Believed.
By C. O. Taylor
[I take the following from a Treatise on Resistance and Non-resistance, by Royal Gage. C. O. TAYLOR.] “I RECOLLECT here the words of a Persian traveler writing from France to his friends at home : ‘Father,’ said I, to the librarian, ‘what are these huge volumes which fill the whole side of the library?’ ‘These,’ said he, ‘are the interpreters of the Scriptures.’ ‘There is a prodigious number of them,’ replied I; ‘the Scriptures must have been very dark formerly, and must be very clear at present. Do there remain still any doubts? Are there now any points contested?’ ‘Are there?’ answered he, with surprise; ‘are there?’ ‘There are almost as many as there are lines.’ ‘You astonish me,’ said I. ‘What, then, have all these authors been doing?’ ‘These authors,’ returned he, ‘never searched the Scriptures for what ought to be believed, but for what they did believe themselves.’”