God’s Providence Overthrows Infidelity

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1878

God’s Providence Overthrows Infidelity

“Gibbon, Voltaire, and Chesterfield, distinguished infidels, labored earnestly to overthrow the cause of Christ. How has God in his providence thwarted all their plans! Gibbon’s house at Lake Leman is now a hotel, in which there is a room for the sale of Bibles; Voltaire’s printing-press, from which he scattered widely his infidel tracts, has been appropriated to printing the word of God, which he sought to destroy; and Chesterfield’s parlor, where an infidel club used to meet and rail at religion, is now a vestry where the songs and prayers of the penitent go up to God. Thus God makes the wrath of man to praise him, and the remainder he restrains.”