"Yes, but he has cut off all the roots, and, just stuck the tops into the ground."
I go to the other man, and say: "What does this mean? Why have you planted all of these trees without roots?"
"I don't believe in roots; they are of no account. My trees look just as well as his."
But when the sun blazes upon the trees, they all wither and die.
There are a lot of people running around who haven't got any roots. A good many live on negations. They are always telling what they don't believe. I want a man to tell me what he does believe, not what he does not believe. And I like to meet a positive man. We just want to know what men do believe. We don't want trees that haven't any roots, for they will dry up when the sun blazes on them. There are a good many persons that are going on without any foundation; they have no faith.
The Path of Obedience
Whatsoever He tells you to do, do. But be sure He says it. Don't take your ideas. Go and live right at home, go and treat your wife and children right, pay your debts, and do some things of that kind.
A colored man said he had seen a sign; he said it read, "G. P. C," and he understood it to mean, "Go preach Christ."
Another man got up, and said. "No, that ain't it; it is 'Go pick cotton.'"
If it is preach the gospel, go preach the gospel; and if it is pick cotton, then pick cotton.