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INFIDELS AND THE BIBLE

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 5, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 6

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INFIDELS AND THE BIBLE.

HUME used to go to church sometimes in Scotland. Collins insisted on his servants going to church, “that they might not rob or murder him.” Voltaire “built a church to God” at Ferney. Mr. Huxley wants the Bible introduced into boarding-schools. Professor Tyndall is indignant at being charged with hostility to religion; and Mr. Herbert Spencer leaves ample space for the “unknown and unknowable.” The heart, like nature, “abhors a vacuum;” it craves for something beyond a negation, and as long as the unknown is treated as “unknown” the craving is hard to satisfy.—Saturday Review.