Three Pools | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 6, 1859

Three Pools.

C. H. SPURGEON after describing two fools—a wounded soldier who should stop to inquire with what kind of a sword he was wounded, and a sea captain in a storm stopping to speculate upon the philosophy of wind introduces a third as follows:

The third fool I shall doubtless find among yourselves. You are sick and wounded with sin, you are in the storm and hurricane of Almighty vengeance, and yet the question which you would ask of me this morning would be, "Sir, what is the origin of evil?" You are mad, sir, spiritually mad; that is not the question you would ask if you were in a sane and healthy state of mind. Your question would be, "How can I get rid of the evil?" Not, "How did it come into the world?" but, "How am I to escape from it?" Not, "How is it that fire descended from heaven upon Sodom?" but, "How may I, like Lot, escape out of the city to a Zoar?" Not, "How is it that I am sick?" but "Are there medicines that will heal me? Is there a physician to be found that can restore my soul to health?" Ah! you trifle with subtleties while you neglect certainties.