'Let nothing that is on this
side the other world get within you; and above all, look well to your own
hearts, and to the lusts thereof.'
'Set your faces like a flint,' Evangelist proceeds. How little like all
that you hear in the counsels of the pulpit to young women coming out and
to young men entering into business life. I am convinced that if we
ministers were more direct and plain-spoken to such persons at such
times; if we, like Bunyan, told them plainly what kind of a world it is
they are coming out to buy and sell in, and what its merchandise and its
prices are; if our people would let us so preach to their sons and
daughters, I feel sure far fewer young communicants would make shipwreck,
and far fewer grey heads would go down with sorrow to the grave. 'Be not
afraid,' said Robert Hall in his charge to a young minister, 'of devoting
whole sermons to particular parts of moral conduct and religious duty. It
is impossible to give right views of them unless you dissect characters
and describe particular virtues and vices. The works of the flesh and
the fruits of the Spirit must be distinctly pointed out.
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