Beliefs Important; or Sincerity no Safeguard
Sunday Companion
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.


Two men were talking together of their beliefs, when one of them petulantly remarked to his Christian brother: "I don't care what your creed is. I am an agnostic. It makes no difference what a man believes if he is sincere." Oh, yes, it does. Let us see. A family was poisoned recently by eating toadstools which they sincerely believed to be mushrooms. Three of them died. Did it make no difference? A man endorsed a note for a friend whom he sincerely believed to be an honest man. He was a scoundrel, and left him to pay the debt. Did it make no difference? A traveller took the wrong train, and went to Scotland instead of to Brighton. Did it make no difference? If a man is sincere he will take pains to know the truth. For where facts are concerned all the thinking in the world will not change them. A toadstool remains a toadstool, whatever we may think about it.

(Sunday Companion.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

WEB: There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.




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