A Faithless Generation

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 25, 1909

A Faithless Generation

More and more frequently do we see demonstrations of the last-day condition implied in our Saviour’s question: “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” This characteristic is not circumscribed by our relation to temporalities, but enters primarily into our attitude toward the things of God. Speaking of the present times, Dr. Charles Brown said:—

What I judge to be the radical defect of the present time is lack of faith. It is a day of unsettled convictions. There is abundance of activity, but a lack of deep and unshaken assurance.

The condition is not overstated. That lack of “unshaken assurance” in divine things on the part of evangelical denominations is driving men and women by the thousands either into infidelity or into the open arms of the Church of Rome. It is a time for the child of God to give diligent study to the Word of God that his anchor may not slip when the stress of the storm bears hard.