Do you study geography at school? When I was a little boy, I remember having a big gray book, with the wonderful word “Geography” across the front. I thought it was a big word, and I thought I was a big boy to study so profound a subject.
I remember the teacher telling us about many countries that we had never seen, about their products, their capital cities, and the way their people lived. One day he made me stand with my back to the big map on the wall, and name every country in the world, with its capital city, and its chief proct. Now I had never been in any of those countries except my own, Canada, and yet I believed everything he told me.
One day teacher Lewis was giving a geography lesson to a class of boys and he was telling them that the earth on which we live is a sphere. That was a hard word to understand, so he told them that it was round like an orange. When the lesson was almost over, he questioned the pupils about what they had heard; they had listened well.
“Now how do you know that the world is round like an orange or a ball?”
The pupils looked at one another in silence. They knew it was true, but they just couldn’t prove it at all. At last Tommy raised his hand, and said, “I know it is round because you said so.”
Tommy believed, simply because Mr. Lewis said so, and that was that. But is there anyone whom I can always trust? Anyone who always tells the truth, and never tells a lie? Yes, there surely is! It is impossible for God to tell a lie, and He has told us many things which I believe, simply because God said so. Will you read some of the things that God says, and believe them at once?
ML 03/18/1956