HOW WE MAKE INFIDELS by Editor

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

HOW WE MAKE INFIDELS.

By Editor

In view of the fact that we are so often charged with making infidels by the promulgation of our views, especially by teaching the doctrine of the unconscious state of the dead and the destruction of the wicked, we some time since made a call, as some of our readers may remember, for responses from those who had been rescued from infidelity by the views we teach.

This call was given only one insertion in the REVIEW, and yet forty-five responses promptly came in from those who had been rescued from the darkness of skepticism, and brought to a belief in the word of God, by these very views which are claimed by some to be such a prolific source of infidelity. Multitudes of other responses could doubtless be secured had the call been repeated, and the subject kept longer before the people.

On the other hand, no person can be found who will testify that he has been led into skepticism by the promulgation of these views. Our friends, in this instance, have exactly reversed the order, and have committed the unfortunate mistake of calling that a cause of infidelity, which not only has never made an infidel, but is the most efficient means of rescuing people therefrom.