Christian Evidence Society
THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY is the name of an anti-infidel organization existing in England. We learn from our British exchanges, that at one of its conferences,—recently held “to consider the best means of counteracting, on a more widely extended scale, the strenuous and systematic efforts of infidels in the metropolis and throughout the country, which are now assuming so alarming a character,”—the Bishop of London, who presided, said, “that, on returning to the metropolis after seventeen years’ absence, he was struck with the systematic attitude which infidelity had now assumed. ‘Skeptical opinions were making progress in the upper ranks, as well as among other classes. Large numbers of books and periodicals of pernicious tendency were in circulation, and German literature had been brought forward prominently in England, and adopted by some of the dignitaries of the Anglican Church. All this told upon the modes of thought of the humbler classes.’” The testimonies of thoughtful, devoted men everywhere respecting the spread of skepticism, should surely arrest attention and lead to a serious consideration of the question: Do the Scriptures teach the conversion of the world? — Advent Herald.