No Atheists
“Repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15).
Amid the loud applause of a crowded audience, an infidel lecturer was laboring to prove the folly of believing in a living God.
When an opportunity was given for discussion, a man stepped forward, and narrated how, from a river bank, he had once witnessed a boat driven down the current towards a dangerous rapid. In it was a man struggling to make the shore. All his efforts failing, frantically he cast away the oar, and cried to God to have mercy upon him. Marvelously he was rescued from the brink of death in the nick of time.
Imagine the confusion of the infidel when the the speaker pointed at him. Amid breathless silence, the speaker said, “And that was the man who is now before you, attempting to prove that there is neither God nor eternity; neither judgment to come nor the need of salvation.” The pretended infidel withdrew, while in solemn silence the audience dispersed.
People may brush the Bible away as fairy tales, but when eternity is staring them in the face, it is often a very different story. Remember there are no atheists in the next life.
