Article February 1, 1900 Issue

Reason and Revelation

BY CLARA B. MACMILLAN.

The thought which suggests this article is not new, I take it, but recent circumstances have brought it to me afresh, and I have wondered if it is not the greatest stumbling-block in the way of Truth-seekers. It is this: That a vast number of people seem to be seeking that which they think is Truth, or rather that which coincides with human reason, and some even go so far as to quote from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, where the author says "reason and revelation must coincide."

Surely this can never be construed to mean that that which appears to human reason as revelation is true, but rather that revelation which corrects human reason—this is Truth.

One says, I do what my conscience (which he believes to be the voice of God) tells me to do, and then I am sure I will always do right. Let us see where this conscience (human reason) has led many people. Has it not led them to take the most savage revenge on their fellow-men, thinking that they were meting out justice, and forgetting the counsel, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord"? Did not Jesus refer to this when he said, "They shall put you out of the synagogue: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service"? Has it not led man to burn at the stake those who would lead them higher, and to persecute in cruel ways the emissaries of God?

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