Words of Wisdom
To employ soft words and honeyed phrases in discussing questions of everlasting importance; to deal with errors that strike at the foundations of all human hope as if they were harmless and venial mistakes; to bless where God disapproves, and to make apologies where He calls us to stand up like men and assert, thought it may be the aptest method of securing popular applause in a sophistical age, is cruelty to man and treachery to Heaven.
Those who on such subjects attach more importance to the rules of courtesy then they do to the measures of truth do not defend the citadel, but betray it into the hands of its enemies.
Love for Christ, and for the souls from whom He died, will be the exact measure of our zeal in exposing the dangers by which men’s souls are snared.
-George Sayles Bishop - 1910
To employ soft words and honeyed phrases in discussing questions of everlasting importance; to deal with errors that strike at the foundations of all human hope as if they were harmless and venial mistakes; to bless where God disapproves, and to make apologies where He calls us to stand up like men and assert, thought it may be the aptest method of securing popular applause in a sophistical age, is cruelty to man and treachery to Heaven.
Those who on such subjects attach more importance to the rules of courtesy then they do to the measures of truth do not defend the citadel, but betray it into the hands of its enemies.
Love for Christ, and for the souls from whom He died, will be the exact measure of our zeal in exposing the dangers by which men’s souls are snared.
-George Sayles Bishop - 1910
