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THE ATHEIST

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 12.

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THE ATHEIST.

By Wm. Knox

The fool hath said, “There is no God!” No God! Who lights the morning sun, And sends him on his heavenly road, A far and brilliant course to run? Who, when the radiant day is done, Hangs forth the moon’s nocturnal lamp, And bids the planets, one by one, Steal o’er the night vales, dark and damp?
No God! Who gives the evening dew, The fanning breeze, the fostering shower? Who warms the spring morn’s budding bough, And plants the summer’s noontide flower? Who spreads in the autumnal bower The fruit tree’s mellow stores around, And sends the winter’s icy power, To invigorate the exhausted ground?
No God! Who makes the bird to wing Its flight like arrow through the sky, And gives the deer its power to spring From rock to rock triumphantly? Who formed Behemoth, huge and high, That at a draught the river drains, And great Leviathan to lie, Like floating isle, on ocean plains?
No God! Who warms the heart to heave With thousand feelings soft and sweet, And prompts the aspiring soul to leave The earth we tread beneath our feet, And soar away on pinions fleet Beyond the scenes of mortal strife, With fair ethereal forms to meet That tell us of the after life?
No God! Who fixed the solid ground Of pillars strong that alter not? Who spread the curtained skies around? Who doth the ocean bounds allot? Who all things to perfection brought On earth below, in heaven above? Go, ask the fool, of impious thought, Who dares to say, “There is no God!” —Wm. Knox.