You may not have chosen your church wholly with an eye to
your shop; but you must admit that you see as good and better men than
you are doing that every day. And it is a sure sign to you that you do
not yet know the plague of your own heart, unless you know yourself to be
a man more set upon the position and the praise that this world gives
than you yet are on the position and the praise that come from God only.
Set a watch on your own worldly heart. Watch and pray, lest you also
enter into all Worldly-Wiseman's temptation. This is one of the words of
God to you.
Another word of God is this. The way of the cross, said severe
Evangelist, is odious to every worldly-wise man; while, all the time, it
is the only way there is, and there never will be any other way to
eternal life. The only way to life is the way of the cross. There are
two crosses, indeed, on the way to the Celestial City; there is, first,
the Cross of Christ, once for you, and then there is your cross daily for
Christ, and it takes both crosses to secure and to assure any man that he
is on the right road, and that he will come at last to the right end.
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