EVER SEEKING, SEEKING

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 18, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 20.

EVER SEEKING, SEEKING.

If Herbert Spencer had placed the same thought on the Bible and the Christian religion that he did upon his own pet schemes, he would have found much more comfort and assurance in faith in Christ than in his "rational" philosophy. He seems to come at last to that conclusion. The last paragraph of his 1,200-page autobiography, according to Mr. Baily Millard, reads:—

Thus religious creeds, which in one way or another occupy the sphere that rational interpretation seeks to occupy and fails, and fails the more the more it seeks, I have come to regard with a sympathy based on community of need; feeling that dissent from them results from inability to accept the solutions offered, joined with the wish that solutions could be found.

If Mr. Spencer had but looked beyond the creeds of men to the Word of God, he would have found sufficient evidence upon which to base an assuring faith, a faith the truth of which experience would ever demonstrate.

Better, far better, the dying words of the old Gospel hero: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved His appearing."