U. S by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1875

U. S

By Uriah Smith

Ho! ye Infidels.

It is claimed by some that the teachings of Seventh-day Adventists are infidel in their nature, and tend to infidelity only. A friend once told us that our books would make more infidels than Tom Paine’s Age of Reason, and the REVIEW was not long since returned from a Y. M. C. A. reading room, on the ground that they did not think it proper to harbor infidel publications.

This is a serious charge if true; and we do well, therefore, to take some pains to ascertain the facts in the case. We have the impression, from our own observation, and from personal knowledge of quite a number of cases, that the statement is exactly the opposite of the truth; that, so far from making infidels, there is nothing like our views of the prophecies, the nature of man, &c., to rescue men from infidelity.

And to test the matter, we have a request to make, which we hope all those concerned will take a little pains to answer. It is this: that all those who have been brought by S. D. Adventist teachings from infidelity or skepticism in any of its forms to embrace Christianity, and accept the Bible as the book of God, will drop us a postal card to this Office, giving name, address, and date of conversion. It will not take much time for each one to do this; and if they will attend to it at once, we shall have something tangible to show the objector how fast our doctrines are making infidels.