Lost His Atheism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 30, 1915

A FRENCH atheist, having been brought to himself, makes this confession:—

“What would become of France if its children did not believe, if its women did not pray? . . . France’s present is tribulation. It feels that it cannot longer believe. Will its future be better?—In God’s hand! Only in God’s hand. A slain people covers the fields. How hard it is to be an atheist in this national graveyard! I cannot! I cannot! I have deceived myself and you who have read my books and sung my songs.”

It is when tribulation comes that people learn to know that there is a God ruling among men. And before the history of this earth closes, thousands upon thousands will lament, as does this sower of doubts, that they have deceived themselves and others into believing that it mattered little whether or not one believed in God. How often God has brought nations to strait places, even Israel itself, in order that they shall “know that I am the Lord.” Over and over this phrase was repeated to Pharaoh by Moses and Aaron. Men are learning the same thing today by the hardest lesson, as did Pharaoh of old, and some, like this French atheist, are profiting thereby.