p. 484 | What Atheism Does

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 2, 1882

What Atheism Does.

For a time, an atheist populace may uphold the tattered banner of corpse-like traditions, which has been stolen from the rifled grave of Christianity. But it will never be long before it declares itself the enemy of the church, the enemy of the family, the enemy of the throne; never long before it tears down the flag of decency and order, and upholds in its place, if not the red flag of socialism, or the black of spoliation, at any rate the standard of material appetites and physical desires."—Canon Farrar.