To leave out or minify repentance, no matter what sort of a faith you preach, is to prepare a generation of professors who are such in name only. Much of modern repentance has not power to wither or to slay. It was, little sick, little well. It was, little sinner, little Savior. We need preachers of repentance, who, like John, are burning and shining lights.
Deeper conviction makes brighter faith.
Then we will have less complaint about shallow faith. You can't put a big house on a little foundation. And no small part of such preaching comes from a class of modern evangelists who desiring more for their own glory to count a great number of converts than to lay deep foundations, reduce the conditions of salvation by one-half and make the other half but some intellectual trick of the mind rather than a radical spiritual change of the heart. They are yet in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity. Such converts know but little and care less about a system of doctrine.