I have faith in the Lord Jesus for myself, -a faith burned into me as with a hot iron. A chasm is opening between men who believe their Bibles and the men who are prepared for an advance upon Scripture. The house is being robbed, its very walls are being digged down, but the good people who are in bed are too fond of the warmth, and too much afraid of getting broken heads, to go downstairs and meet the burglars . Compromise there can be none. One way or the other we must go.
Decision is the virtue of the hour.
O.H.S., September 1887, The Sword and the Trowel. Yes, we have before us the wretched spectacle of professedly orthodox Christians publicly avowing their union with those who deny the faith, and scarcely concealing their contempt for those who cannot be guilty of such gross disloyalty to Christ. It is our solemn conviction that where there can be no real spiritual communion there should be no pretense of fellowship. Fellowship with known and vital error is participation in sin. C.H.S., November 1887, The Sword and the Trowel.