Deism of any type is morally impotent; and deism of the
eighteenth-century type is nothing but a little patch of
uncertain quicksand set in a black sea of atheism. It does not
deny God’s existence, but it cancels Him out as a force in
human life. It breaks the golden ladder of revelation between
heaven and earth. It leaves the Bible discredited, duty a guess,
heaven a freak of the uncharted imagination, and God a vague
and far-off shadow. Men were left by it to climb into a shadowy
heaven on some frail ladder of human logic.--Rev. W. H.
FITCHETT, “Wesley and His Century.”
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