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Biographical Sketch and Writings of Elder Benjamin Franklin
Biographical Sketch and Writings of Elder Benjamin Franklin Author:Benjamin Franklin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: G.W. Rice Subjects: Restoration movement (Christianity) Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christianity / Baptist Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrat... more »ions and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: No. 11. -- THE MISSION OF INFIDELS. In our previous article, under the above caption, we confined our observations mainly to the deteriorating tendencies of Infidelity, without attempting any description of its various methods of accomplishing its work. In this article, we propose to enter upon its methods of operation. It is not confined to any one method or form of operation. It proposes no system or plan of action. It is confined to no rules of warfare, has no laws of argumentation, no definite mode of attack, nor laws of honor in conducting the battle. It is perfectly unscrupulous, and will adopt any stratagem that can be invented to oppose and defeat the truth. The mode of warfare adopted by Paine, Hume, Volney, Bolingbroke, Voltaire and their contemporaries, was manly, noble and honorable, compared with many of the methods employed in these times in opposing Divine revelation. They made a direct, fair and palpable issue with believers in the Bible. They openly denied the divinity of the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ. Even Robert Owen, in his discussion with Mr. Campbell, openly and boldly affirmed that "all religion is founded in ignorance." But it has been discovered in this inventive and progressive age, that this bold, manly and candid issue with Christianity did not succeed well. It has been found too direct, plain and palpable for success, and that something more circuitous, indirect and stealthy would s...« less