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Someone has well said, “The Christian
in the world is like a ship in the ocean. The ship is safe in the
ocean so long as the ocean is not in the ship.” One of the great
difficulties with Christianity today is that it has admitted the
strangers, the “people of the land,” and recognized them as
Christians. It does injury, not only to the Christians, by lowering
their standards (for the average will be considered the
standard), but it also injures the “strangers,” by causing many of
them to believe themselves thoroughly safe and needing no
conversion, because they are outwardly respectable, and perhaps
frequently attendants at public worship. |