Sense not to Limit Faith

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Mark 2:12

And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying…

Some time ago a missionary had told his black congregation that in the winter time the water in England became so hard that a man could walk upon it. Now they believed a good deal that he told them, but they did not believe that. One of them was brought over to England. The frost came at length, and the missionary took his black friend down to it; and although he stood upon the ice himself he could not persuade him to venture. "No," he said, "but I never saw it so. I have lived fifty years in my own country, and I never saw a man walk on a river before."

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