The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.
The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine.
There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.
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