A GOOD ILLUSTRATION

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 20, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 21

A GOOD ILLUSTRATION.

A CORRESPONDENT sends us the following:—

“Those who claim that there is no need of revelation to teach men what is right, but that reason and conscience are sufficient, are very much like the Irishman who endeavored to sustain the proposition that ‘the moon is more sensible than the sun,’ with the argument that ‘the moon shines in the night, when we need it; but the sun only comes out in broad daylight, when even a one-eyed man can see without it.’

“This so fully illustrates the very absurd position taken by so many ‘advanced thinkers,’ in public and private, at hotels, aboard the cars and steamboats, on the rostrum, and even in the pulpit, that I could not forbear putting it on paper.

“We need the light of revelation, that the eyes of reason and conscience may see the path that leads to life; and he who discards it, or he who, holding it, sets aside his reason, is equally foolish with the one who, having good eyes, says he has no need of the sun; or closes his eyes at midday and walks in darkness.”