Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

obtain those things which were calculated to
strengthen unbelief and darkness. Instead of
searching for evidence to strengthen faith, you took
the opposite course, and Satan directed your mind
in a course to suit his own purposes. You love to
combat, and when you enter the field of battle you
know not when to lay down your arms. You love to
argue, and have indulged in this until it has led you
from the light, led you from the truth and from
God, to where you have been enshrouded in
darkness, and unbelief has taken possession of your
mind. You have been blinded by Satan.
Like faithless Thomas, you have considered it a
virtue to doubt unless you could have unmistakable
evidence, removing from your mind all cause for
doubt. Did Jesus commend the unbelieving
Thomas while granting him the evidence which he
declared he would have before he believed? Jesus
said unto him: "Be not faithless, but believing."
Thomas answered: "My Lord and my God." He is
now compelled to believe; there is no room to
doubt. Jesus then said: "Thomas, because thou hast
seen Me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that
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