Faith and Reason – Charles Spurgeon

An old writer says: — Faith and Reason may be compared to two Travellers; Faith is like a man in full health, who can walk his twenty or thirty miles at a time without suffering; Reason is like a little child, who can only, with difficulty, accomplish three or four miles. ” Well,” says this old writer, “on a given day Reason says to Faith, ‘Good Faith, let me walk with thee;’ Faith replies, ‘ O Reason, thou canst never walk with me!’ However, to try their paces, they set out together, but they soon find it hard to keep company. When they come to a deep river, Reason says, ‘ 1 can never ford this but Faith wades through it singing. When they reach a lofty mountain, there is the same exclamation of despair; and in such cases, Faith, in order not to leave Reason behind, is obliged to carry him on his back; and,” adds the writer, “oh! what a luggage is Reason to Faith!”