"Upon my word! If that isn't the plainest-spoken and
easiest-understood religious matter I have read in many a day," said
Robert. "I wonder who sent it, and if any more will come."

Next week another copy of the new paper came, and Robert read an
article on "The Church of God, What It Is and What It Is Not."

"Mary, this paper is providentially sent to us. We have just decided
to search for truth. My soul longs to know God's real truth, and I
notice this paper has much to say about the 'truth.' We shall continue
our investigation of the doctrines of the denominations and probably
this paper will help us," said Robert. Before he laid the second issue
down, he read the following article on Truth:

"Unknowingly to himself, Pontius Pilate asked one of the greatest of
questions when he asked Jesus Christ, 'What is truth?' Jesus was on
trial before him, and He had just said, in reply to another question
of Pilate's, 'Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born,
and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness
unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice' (John
18:37). And then Pilate asked, 'What is truth?' but he did not stop to
get an answer.

"The 'truth' to which Jesus often referred means righteousness, true
religion, the genuine revelation of the true plan of salvation. This
is what the apostle John referred to when he said, 'For the truth's
sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever' (2 John 2).
The 'truth' in these texts is used in a broad sense to mean the
whole range of revealed religion, the whole system of New Testament