Excerpt from What Are We to Believe?: Or the Testimony of Fulfilled Prophecy
It is sometimes asked in petulant indolence. The writer has a vivid recollection of its being put by a rather feeble, and not very worthy, member of a country church. He possessed a copy of "Brown's Bible," and it was a favourite exercise with him to spend Sunday afternoon in comparing the exposition he had heard in the morning with the remarks in the commentary. These did not always agree, and disagreement was never noted without annoyance. One Sunday there chanced to be a more than ordinarily wide divergence. The minister happened to call a day or two afterwards, and, having spent his strength in explaining and defending the position he had dared to take in defiance of "Brown," he was rewarded by the exclamation: "What are we to believe!"
It might be well for all men, and it would certainly be more agreeable to many, were there no divergent opinions. But it is not well for any man, when he discovers that all do not think alike, to faint amid the strife of tongues and to "throw the whole thing up." There are few truths which have not had to run the gauntlet of controversy, and those truths are our possession to-day solely because there happened to be men who, while they loved peace, would not part with conviction though the holding to it meant war. Science as well as faith has had its martyrs.
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