It would be the height of folly to assert that there is no change.
Some say that we must believe precisely the same things as our fathers
believed. To do so would be to be false to our fathers, for they
refused to accept the traditions of their elders. The landmarks we
leave behind once were far in front of the seekers after truth.

Truth never changes but our vision is ever enlarging. The road
remains, but the traveller moves on. With the living every day has
some new light. Creeds are crystallized statements of truth; truth is
vital and cannot be contained in unchanging forms. Credulity blindly
accepts yesterday's picture of truth; faith, with open eyes, seeks
to-day's truth itself.

Skepticism is much less sinful than credulity. The sloth of the man
who will not examine things, will not prove them, who prefers to buy
his garments of truth ready made, results in what is worse than
unbelief, and that is blind belief in the false. It is a religious
duty to question every teaching, to prove all things.

How may we find those things that are certain? How may we discover the
truth for our day, the truth upon which we may build? Surely there are
some things fixed and certain, there is somewhere pole star and
compass. How may we find that truth which belongs to our day and in
which we may have the confidence that our fathers had in their truth?

The test of the vital truths is a practical one. Only those truths are
vital which concern the present business of living in all its wide
sweep.