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Thought for the Day 19 January 2010

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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As Christians, we cannot forget how Scripture speaks of the world, and all that appertains to it. Human Society, indeed, is an ordinance of God, to which He gives His sanction and His authority; but from the first an enemy has been busy in its depravation. Hence it is, that while in its substance it is divine, in its circumstances, tendencies, and results it has much of evil. Never do men come together in considerable numbers, but the passion, self-will, pride, and unbelief, which may be more or less dormant in them one by one, bursts into a flame, and becomes a constituent of their union.

From the sermon ‘In the World, but not of the World’ (1873) Click here for the full text (leaves site)