Today, there is the temptation of love for intellectual novelty. Instead of the old, old gospel, and the old, old Book, for which God be thanked forever, we are to place science, which is generally conjecture, in the place of revelation; and the thoughts of men are to cover and bury the sublime thoughts of God. I see ministers and churches deluded and led astray by these temptations. As for me, if no one else will say it, I purpose in my heart not to defile myself with this portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank. We need still to have old-fashioned believers who will sing the verse— |
“Should all the forms that men deviseAssault my faith with treacherous art, I’d call them vanity and lies, And bind the gospel to my heart.” |
God send us many Daniels of that sort! |
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