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  • Well over 100 years ago, an American poet

  • put to rhyme an ancient parable.

  • The first verse of the poem speaks about:

  • "Six men of Indostan

  • To learning much inclined,

  • Who went to see the Elephant

  • (Though all of them were blind),

  • That each by observation

  • Might satisfy his mind."

  • In the poem, each of the six travelers

  • takes hold of a different part of the elephant

  • and then describes to the others what he has discovered.

  • One of the men finds the elephant's leg

  • and describes it as being round and rough like a tree.

  • Another feels the tusk and describes the elephant

  • as a spear.

  • A third grabs the tail and insists that an elephant

  • is like a rope.

  • A fourth discovers the trunk and insists that the elephant

  • is like a large snake.

  • Each is describing truth.

  • And because his truth comes from personal experience,

  • each insists that he knows what he knows.

  • The poem concludes:

  • "And so these men of Indostan

  • Disputed loud and long,

  • Each in his own opinion

  • Exceeding stiff and strong,

  • Though each was partly in the right,

  • And all were in the wrong!"

  • That someone could make a judgment

  • based on one aspect of truth and apply it

  • to the whole seems absurd or even unbelievable.

  • On the other hand, have we ever been guilty of the same pattern

  • of thought?

  • We have so many examples of things

  • that mankind once knew were true but have since proven false.

  • For example, in spite of one-time overwhelming

  • consensus, the earth isn't flat.

  • The stars don't revolve around the earth.

  • And of course, man actually can fly, even break

  • the sound barrier.

  • Often truth is rejected because it

  • doesn't appear to be consistent with previous experiences.

  • The thing about truth is that it exists beyond belief.

  • It is true even if nobody believes it.

  • We simply don't know all things.

  • We can't see everything.

  • Because we see through a glass darkly,

  • we have to trust the Lord, who sees all things clearly.

  • That is because there is one source of truth

  • that is complete, correct, and incorruptible.

  • That source is our infinitely wise and all-knowing Heavenly

  • Father.

  • He knows truth as it was, as it is, and as it yet will be.

  • Our loving Heavenly Father offers His truth

  • to us, His mortal children.

  • Now, what is this truth?

  • It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  • Jesus Christ--He is "the way, the truth, and the life."

  • As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth

  • with an open mind and a humble heart,

  • you will become more tolerant of others,

  • more open to listen, more prepared to understand,

  • more inclined to build up instead of tearing down.

  • And you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go.

  • It is my prayer that you will seek

  • the truth earnestly and unceasingly,

  • that you will yearn to drink from the fount of all truth,

  • whose waters are pure and sweet, "a well of water

  • springing up into everlasting life."

Well over 100 years ago, an American poet

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發現真相 (Discovering Truth)

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