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On Atheism

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 19.

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On Atheism

ON ATHEISM.—“I had rather,” says Sir Francis Bacon, “believe all the fables in the Legend, Talmud, and the Khoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. God never wrought miracles to convince Atheists, because his ordinary works are sufficient to convince them. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth men’s minds to Atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth them back to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest on them and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to providence and deity.”