Life at Maryland

“These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians, the world would more heartily detest us. If we would cleave more closely to Christ, we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men…

We are to be men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning, either to escape a frown or to win a smile. The more manifestly there shall be a great guilt between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both. It is better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned. It is better for the church, for it shall be thereby preserved. Go then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill name, and to earn reproach. Go, like Him, outside the camp” (Spurgeon, The Power of the Cross of Christ).

In addition, if you haven’t heard Jim Donahue’s message from Sunday yet, it would be a well-spent hour of your life.