Moral Fitness and Endeavor

1895

"There is no book, no church, no inward monitor, no testimony within, without, that can make us to know the truth without moral fitness and endeavor on our part. There must be truth in the inward parts in order to our finding truth anywhere. But, with this, there is truth for you and me, to believe, to know, to live by and to die by. The book, the conscience, the experience of humanity, through all and above all, the life and testimony of Jesus Christ, these are fountains through which the living stream wells forth. What prophets have seen, sages thought, and saints lived is true. What Jesus believed, knew and taught is true. You shall sooner convince me that yon sun emits darkness than make me believe other than this. Yea, you and I have seen human lives that we know were based on truth.

"So the truth which shall judge us at last marshals us to right or to left today.

" 'Heard are the voices,
Heard are the sages,
The Worlds and the Ages!
Choose well, your choice is
Brief and yet endless.' "
—Rev. J. Westly Earashaw.