p. 246 | Abandoned Hulks and Shipwrecked Faith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 21, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 16

Abandoned Hulks and Shipwrecked Faith

—The attention of seamen is being called to an increasing peril in ocean navigation, namely, the abandoned hulks of shipwrecked vessels drifting about in the lines of most frequent transit. We have found a similar peril in the way of religious progress, namely, the influence of men who, once known as Christians, have made shipwreck of their faith. We heard a man once proclaim in a public place that he was a Universalist after having made a trial of orthodoxy. “I was a Baptist,” he said, “but I left ’em; couldn’t swallow their doctrine.” An examination of the church records at the place where he had formerly lived, showed that he had been a member of the Baptist church, and also that he had been excluded for opening and maintaining a liquor saloon. So this dismantled hulk was drifting about to the peril of the unwary.