Some Striking Statements

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 24, 1908

Some Striking Statements

It is quite a common thing for those who reject the Bible to hold up to ridicule the believers in the truths revealed in the Scriptures; but it is not often that the tables are effectively turned, and the absurdities of the assailants of Christianity are cleverly shown up. The best recent example of this is a book from which these paragraphs are taken:—

St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his visions; he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is the head that splits.

So again: modern skepticism is “the suicide of thought. It is the belief that we can be sure of nothing.”

We are on the road to producing a race of men too modest to believe in the multiplication table.

There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.

Descartes said: “I think; therefore I am.” The philosophic evolutionist reverses and negatives the epigram. He says: “I am not; therefore I can not think.”

The most effective way to dispose of a wind-bag is to puncture it, and the same method may sometimes be successfully employed in dealing with the unproved and unprovable assertions made concerning Christianity and the Bible.