A Contrast | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 15.

A Contrast.

THIS is what Ingersoll, the noted infidel, says:—

"And yet we hope and dream. May be the longing for another life is but the prophecy, forever warm from Nature's lips, that love, disguised as death, alone fulfills. We cannot tell. And yet, perhaps this hope is but an antic, following the fortunes of an uncrowned king, beguiling grief with jest, and satisfying loss with pictured gain. We do not know."

How different the language of Paul, the famous Christian missionary: "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." 2 Tim. 1:12. Never does God trifle with his children. "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Rom. 8:37-39.

Who would exchange Christian certainty for atheistic doubt?