Great word from Spurgeon: A healthy Church kills error, and tears off pieces of evil. Not so very long ago our nation tolerated slavery in our colonies. Philanthropists endeavored to destroy slavery; but when was it utterly abolished? It was when Wilberforce roused the Church of God, and when the Church addressed herself to the conflict, she tore the evil thing to pieces.After the Act of Emancipation was passed. Wilberforce merrily said to a friend Is there not something else we can abolish? That was said playfully, but it shows the spirit of the Church. She lives in conflict and victory her mission is to destroy everything that is bad in the land. See how the fierce devil of intemperance devours men! Earnest friends have been laboring against it, and they have done something for which we are grateful, but if ever intemperance is put down, it will be when the entire Church of God shall arouse herself to protest against it. When the strong lion rises up the giant of drunkenness shall fall before him. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. I augur for the world the best results from a fully aroused church. If God be in her there is no evil which she cannot overcome.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:50:55 +0000
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