Losing Faith

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 13.

Losing Faith.—The Rev. Thomas Whitelaw, M.A., D.D., in "The Fundamentals," volume 6, quotes the editor of the "Hibbert Journal" as saying, "Society abounds with earnest and educated persons who have lost faith in a living, personal God, and see their fellows and foresee themselves passing out of life entirely without hope." And he who comes in touch with society in general knows that the quotation utters a great, sad fact. The same thing is strongly and emphatically implied, or foretold, by our Lord in the question, "Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" It implies a great scarcity of simple faith; and how that scarcity ought to quicken the zeal and earnestness of God's children!