APRIL 24TH, 1894

APRIL 24TH, 1894

... As to Luke 9: 26, it is a word for the conscience and is meant to have a solemn force for all who hear it — whether saved or unsaved. Nothing is more evil than the practice, which is very prevalent, of turning aside the point of such passages by supposing that they refer only to unsaved ones. Some were quite surprised when I said at — the other day that “How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?” had a solemn and searching application to each one of us, for we all need to “give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip”. It is a very evil thing to set one scripture against another, and to use one to weaken the force of another. Each scripture is needed, and while we must be careful that the scriptures which touch our responsibilities do not weaken our sense of grace, we must not allow the thought that because of grace there is no such thing as responsibility.

April 24th, 1894.