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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

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Fact and Truth

THERE is a difference between the two. A fact is a mere statement of what is so and in which we may believe without affecting us in any way. The demons believe facts, and know, doubtless, very many more of them than humanity ever did. Sometimes they have trembled over those facts, but the facts have not affected their lives morally. Truth is living; truth is present fact filled with the life of God. He who holds truth, holds in that truth life and power. It must affect him, it must take hold of his life, or it degenerates into cold, formal fact. The great need of the world at the present time is not mere facts; it has an abundance of them; its need is truth, warm, living, life-giving, heart-molding truth.