Infidelity Spreading

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1868

Infidelity Spreading.

That infidelity is rapidly spreading on both continents is very apparent to any careful observer, and we see nothing to check its progress but the very truths for the belief of which some of us are called “infidels.” Satan has always tried to sanctify error, and cause it to be honored among men, and to brand the truth with the title of “infidelity.” Let us not be sneered or ridiculed away from the good old way, but hold fast to the faith once delivered to the saints. The following from an earnest and able writer in one of our exchanges, says:

“A distinguished American preacher, lately returned from Europe, has given an account of what he saw and heard. He gives us to understand in his work, ‘Impressions of Europe,’ that the science and philosophy, the intelligence and the political tendencies of the people of Germany, are all leaning against ‘evangelicism’ as maintained in the Protestant Church. He makes the painful statement that the universities, as a rule, are favoring the secular and non-religious view and feeling, and after referring to a report that one of the most venerable and popular of the professors had openly boasted of his atheism, and that few scholarly men, not tied to official necessities, have the courage to treat miracles with the least respect, and some other things looking in the same direction, he inquires: ‘Is it possible for Christianity as an institution or a religion to survive the prevalence of opinions so radically destructive as this?’ This is a question so serious in its import that it is worthy of a thoughtful and serious answer. The contest undoubtedly is great, and the aspect of the sky is stormy.”—Herald of Kingdom.