A TRUST BETRAYED | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 25.

A TRUST BETRAYED.

In the great day of final awards I would rather stand in the place of Voltaire, Ingersoll, or Tom Paine, than in the place of those professed ministers of the Gospel who have stood in the sacred desk and cast discredit and doubt upon the Word of God. Those were open enemies in the field; these are traitors in the camp. Those drew their sustenance from the followers of the enemy while working for him; these draw their support from the church of Christ while working against it and against its Founder. The hungry soul expects through the doctor of divinity the bread of life and the water of life—and has a right to expect it; and such a professed servant of the Lord who feeds to such a soul a stone of unbelief or a serpent of doubt has assumed the most fearful responsibility that can possibly rest upon the shoulders of mortal man. It was of such that Christ said, “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” The consistent, open infidel will fare better in that day than he, who, in the garb of religion, has taught men to look upon the Word of God as a myth, an unreality, the work of human hands and minds. It is better to anchor to the Rock of Ages than to flounder and swamp and sink in the sea of doubt; better to believe the Word of Him for whose glory we were made, and then live and reign with Him eternally, than to fill a world with the philosophy of doubt, and then perish on the grave of our false theories.