A few years ago in England a Christian was pleading with an infidel whom he had known for a long time. He sought to prove to the unbeliever that God's way was the only road to peace and happiness. The infidel exclaimed: "I wish all the churches were swept from the land, beginning with Spurgeon's Tabernacle.”
"Then which of you infidels would take upon himself the responsibility of Spurgeon's Orphanage?" replied the Christian.
The silence following was both oppressive and expressive.
Some sailors were cast upon the shores of an island far away in the Pacific Ocean. They feared that they might have landed among cannibal heathen, and were full of anxious apprehension. One of their number climbed up a tall tree to get a wider view of the island. Down he came with a smiling face, saying: "We are all right, mates! I caught sight of a mission station." Their fears banished, the sailors set out immediately to join the Christian missionaries, not doubting but that they would be welcomed and befriended.
Said an infidel to the late Dr. Joseph Parker: "The Bible is an immoral Book.”
Dr. Parker's reply was: "If that were so, I would expect the immoral people to enjoy reading it. However, I find it is the moral, godly people who take pleasure in that Book.”
The Bible is vindicated by its own proverb: "By their fruits ye shall know them." Matt. 7:2020Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. (Matthew 7:20). It states an incontrovertible axiom: "Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit." Matt. 7:1717Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. (Matthew 7:17).
Does the Bible bear good fruit? Was Dr. Bernardo, who founded the Bernardo Homes in Stepney, England, a Christian or an infidel? Was Geo. Mueller, who started the "Mueller's Homes" in Bristol, a Christian or an infidel? Was Quarrier, who founded the Quarrier's Homes in Scotland, a Christian or an infidel? They were ALL Christians. Not one was an infidel!
When they swept religion from France and enthroned the "Goddess of Reason" in Noter Dame Cathedral, Paris, what followed? The bloody French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, the ascendency of such monsters as Robespierre, Danton, and the like—men, human tigers, who thirsted for blood, and who kept the guillotine busy, filling its baskets with human heads!
More recently Russian Communists have sought to drive religion from their land. They have boasted that "if there is a God, they will banish Him from heaven, if there be a heaven." What has followed? Unspeakable horrors and atrocities! Millions have died there of starvation, while the hand of infidelity has toppled over the inverted pyramid of civilization from its precarious resting place.
Today God is being denied on every hand. We entreat you by all that you hold dear, to believe the gospel of the grace of God. It is your only hope for peace and stability. It is still "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." Rom. 1:1616For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16). The gospel is the only power that can deliver from the thraldom of sin.
One who labors for God in a home for inebriate women testified that over a long stretch of years only one Power has been found who could really deliver the victim of drink. The pledge was tried, expensive drugs used, change of environment attempted, strengthening of will-power and self-respect urged; all these things were insufficient. Only one thing was efficacious to meet the power of sin. Only the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary's cross, could deliver. BUT "He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him." Heb. 7:2525Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:25).
Reader, if unsaved, you need this Savior and the gospel of His grace. You cannot live aright without HIM, and you cannot enter heaven uncleansed by His precious blood.