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The Fountainhead

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 22.

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The Fountainhead

By Armory

A stream may be defiled, a reservoir may become polluted, a cup may be poisoned; but the fountain will still remain pure. The gospel comes to us to-day in many forms and through many channels; it comes to us tinged with the feelings, thoughts, and fancies of a multitude of men of passions like our own; and often the honest inquirer is perplexed and misled by the wordy strifes of discordant teachers who profess to draw their differing faiths from a common source, and to bend their steps to a common destination.
There is nothing better for us to do under such circumstances than to go to the Fountainhead. The Christ who died on the cross again lives; the Holy Spirit which brings all things to our remembrance yet abides in the world; and the Sacred Scriptures, which contain the truth as it is in Jesus, are within our reach. Nothing but our idleness and indifference can prevent our searching for ourselves, to see if these things are so; and if we turn away from the advices of man, and draw our faith from the Fountainhead, the Word of God, we shall attain a knowledge of the truth, pure and unadulterated, which we may not hope to gain in any other way.
"Search the Scriptures!" Within the pages of that Word the inquiring soul may find his doubts resolved, his faith nourished, his soul purified, and his heart made glad; for he shall find that the Holy Scriptures are able to make him "wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."—Armory.