A Cure For Infidelity by JOS. CLARKE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 22, 1870

A Cure For Infidelity.

By JOS. CLARKE

MANY years ago, a boy of ten or twelve years, becoming dissatisfied with the plans of his parents as to his education and future life, professed himself an infidel in his principles; thinking thus to evade or change the plans of his guardians. His tutor tersely replied, “Is that so? then I will remedy that;” and immediately commenced applying the rod, and continued this operation until the young skeptic recanted his principles, and professed clearly his confidence in the word of God. And in time this boy became a powerful advocate of the principles of Christianity, in an age of general infidelity.

What proves clearly that infidelity would expire if God should manifest his judgments, is the fact that infidels are among the first to beg for mercy in time of an earthquake or shipwreck. This is so, with a few exceptions, which are those in which the disease of unbelief has attained a full development, and has become chronic, in which case the victim's mind has become so perverted that reason cannot longer rule, or that the friends of the lower world hold him completely in their power.

Most infidels are so willfully; not quite all so, however, as early education has biased some minds in that direction. But if in the first stages of this disease the same treatment could be administered as above, there would be few infidels. JOS. CLARKE.