A Discourse

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Excerpt from A Discourse: Preached Before the Congregation of the Smyrna Church, of Savannah River Association, First Sabbath, September, 1838 "And many other signs truly did Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, which are no written in this book. "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing ye might have life through his name." - John, 20 c, xxx, xxxi. v. Strange is the condition in which Providence has placed the believer, he is ever walking (with regard to the knowledge of this world) in the midst of darkness and obscurity: but to the believer himself, all is light, so far as he is enabled to exercise faith upon the testimonies given by inspired men. Does he wish to ascertain the truth, which is the object of his faith? It is founded on facts, and in order to be assured of these facts he must force his way backward through more than eighteen centuries, he must dig truth and falsehood out of the rubbish of tradition, out of the captious systems of the enemies of Christianity - nay, sometimes out of pious frauds, on which an indiscreet zeal has attempted to establish it, he must plunge himself into periods that are gone by, he must walk by faith and not by sight. It is necessary that his persuasion, if I may so express myself, should form a new creation of things, which will open to his mind all that is necessary for his happiness in this world, or that which is to come. Being thus persuaded, he docs not listen to the sophistry of men, but continually applies himself to the study of truth, and in doing this, he takes no other guide but the volume of inspiration, which he knows is able to make him wise unto salvation. St. John, in presenting his testimony to his brethren and to all succeeding generations, acted in perfect conformity with the instructions and examples of his Blessed Master, and of all who were engaged in publishing the glad tidings of salvation to a dying world. In the twentieth chapter of the Gospel recorded by St. John, of which our text forms a part, it being the closing part of his written testimony, he sums up all those interesting facts and circumstances in connection with the resurrection of the Blessed Redeemer, and tells us that they are written that we might believe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.