Thought-provoking Thoughts
Undermining the Scriptures.
Johannes Hame, in his A Christian in East Germany, Tells a rather remarkable thing about Wellhausen – whose destructive criticism of the Bible did so much to undermine faith in the inerrancy of Holy Scripture – that he (Wellhausen) began his last public lecture by holding up the empty covers of a Bible and saying, 'This, gentleman, is what I bequeath to my successor.'
Unfortunately, his words were only too true. The authority of Holy Scripture cannot be underminded in one part without affecting the whole.”
The Devil Described.
Devil is the author of evil, the fountain of wickedness, the adversary of the truth, the corrupter of the world, man's perpetual enemy; he plants snares, digs ditches, spurs on bodies, goads on souls; he suggests thought, belches anger, exposes virtue to hatred, makes vice beloved; he sows error, nourishes contention, disturbs peace, and scatters affliction.”
Redeeming the Time.
John Berridge has always been looked upon as a pretty eccentric old saint of the church, but I'm sure we could do worse than emulate the spirit that prompted him to paste the following lines on his clock, so that the instrument became a constant voice to him from day to day: -
And mark the time with faithful hand;
What is his will is my delight,
To tell the hours by day and night.
Master, be wise, and learn of me
to serve thy God as I serve thee!”
Quote.
“Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am concerned to observe, (1) That evil exists. (2) That there is a way of escape from it. With this I begin and end.”
Conscience Work.
“Conscience may convict men of ordinary sins, but never of the sin of unbelief. Of the enormity of this sin no man was ever convinced but by the Holy Ghost Himself.”
