November 20

Danger of ungodly alliances

“Quit you like men, be strong” (1 Cor. 16:13).

God give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor and who will not lie;
Men who stand before a demagogue
And scorn his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog,
In public duty, and in private thinking.
—J. G. Holland.

Some are too prudent—rascally prudent!
We have, alas, traveled far from apostolic Christianity. Just imagine the mayor and corporation of Ephesus calling a conference of religion and inviting Alexander the Jew, Demetrius the silversmith, and Paul, to have a friendly conference as to the best method of producing religious feeling and good morality among the townsfolk! Imagine Paul on the receipt of such an invitation! But of course those benighted days are gone! We are noted “back numbers” unless we are prepared to smile at those solemn words of Paul that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils. Oh, for a breath from Heaven that shall scatter these despicable compromises!
—Paget Wilkes.

“Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord?” (2 Chron. 19:2).

The men who move the world are the ones who do not let the world move them.

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