Afternoon Classes - That Evil Invention!

Jesus Was Certainly Not A Mere Enunciator Of Permanent Truths, Like The Modern Liberal Preacher; On The Contrary He Was Conscious Of Standing At The Turning-point Of The Ages, When What Had Never Been Was Now To Come To Be.

The Type Of Religion Which Rejoices In The Pious Sound Of Traditional Phrases, Regardless Of Their Meanings, Or Shrinks From "controversial" Matters, Will Never Stand Amid The Shocks Of Life.

A Public-school System, If It Means The Providing Of Free Education For Those Who Desire It, Is A Noteworthy And Beneficent Achievement Of Modern Times; But When Once It Becomes Monopolistic It Is The Most Perfect Instrument For Tyranny Which Has Yet Been Devised. Freedom Of Thought In The Middle Ages Was Combated By The Inquisition, But The Modern Method Is Far More Effective.’ (1923)

After Listening To Modern Tirades Against The Great Creeds Of The Church, One Receives A Shock When One Turns To The Westminster Confession... And Discovers That In Doing So One Has Turned From Shallow Modern Phrases To A "dead Orthodoxy" That Is Pulsating With Life In Every Word. In Such Orthodoxy There Is Life Enough To Set The Whole World Aglow With Christian Love.

What I Need First Of All Is Not Exhortation, But A Gospel, Not Directions For Saving Myself But Knowledge Of How God Has Saved Me. Have You Any Good News? That Is The Question That I Ask Of You. I Know Your Exhortations Will Not Help Me. But If Anything Has Been Done To Save Me, Will You Not Tell Me The Facts?