p. 2 | WITHOUT THE BIBLE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1900

WITHOUT THE BIBLE.

Wise(?) men some years ago proposed a new plan for bringing the world up out of the thraldom of sin and debauchery. They would start “college settlements,” where the name of Christ must not be pronounced, lest the people be frightened away; where the Bible must not be seen, lest it might excite prejudice; where prayers and hymns and sermons must not be heard, lest the people should suspect the movement. They would live among the people, minister to their wants, elevate their tastes, introduce cultured habits, and, after gaining their confidence, win them to Christ by showing them what a blessing they would be to the church and the world by accepting Christianity! A wealthy man in New York City is said to have put one hundred thousand dollars into a movement of that kind there; but after a fair trial, and anything but satisfactory results, he now declares that he will never put another cent of his money into any institution that begins by barring out the Bible and prayer and the Son of God from its sphere of action. This is good. “The world by wisdom knew not God,” and never can and never will know him; and without God the world never can and never will be saved. The knowledge of him must come from the gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible, and this alone is able to save the world.—Religious Telescope.