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Someone has well said, “The
Christian in the world is like a ship in the ocean. The
ship is safe in the ocean so long as the ocean is not in
the ship.” One of the great difficulties with
Christianity today is that it has admitted the
strangers, the “people of the land,” and recognized them as
Christians. It does injury, not only to the Christians, by
lowering their standards (for the average will be
considered the standard), but it also injures the
“strangers,” by causing many of them to believe
themselves thoroughly safe and needing no conversion,
because they are outwardly respectable, and perhaps
frequently attendants at public worship. |
