The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-09-29
HYpOCRITE, OH YE AYP0CRITE
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have been speaking; who make the
Pra so OF men their idol, notwithstaud
ing hey profess to love God supremely
And they are things by which you can
Getvcs your own true charac .er, II there
are any who read who properly belong
to this class.
1 They do what the apostle Paul
ssys certsi persons did in his day, and
for that reastn they remained ignorant
Of the true character; they "measure
themselves by themselves. and compare
themselves among themselves "
Toere are vast many individuals.
who, instead of making Jesus Oori 1t
their standard of comparison, and the
Bible their rule OF life, 10 snifestly aiin
never seriously dreamed of making the
Aiole tn eir standard. The great ques-
tion with them Is, whether they do
about as many things in religion, and
ara about 3 pious as other people, or
as the chu4ch around them. Their OBJ
jec5 is TO maintain @ respectable profess
sion Of religion. Instead of seriously
inquiring for themselves, what the
Ri ole really requires, and asking how
Jesus Christ would act in such and such
aases, they are looking simply q. the
common run OF protesting Christians,
an are satisfied with doing what Is
com mendsble in their estim alton. They
prove to demonstrat ton, that their OBJ
JecJ is not 40 much 10 do what the Bible
lays down az duty, as to do what the
greas mass OF protesting Christians do
10 do what is respectable, rather than
what Is righ
2. This cl.ss of persons do not TT GU Bile
theuse yes about elevatsng the standard
Ct piety around them.
They are not troubled at the fact, that
ho lo Il II -, ;nt tao
the cou CD, that it is inn osaibl TO bring
the great mass of sinners to repentance
'Ehey think the standard at the presen
time is high enough. Whatever be- the
standard at the time 1t satisfies them.
While the resi- friends of God and man
are complaining OF the church, because
abe standard Of piety is so low, and
trying to wake up the chnrch to elevate
the tone OF religion, it all seems to this
class OF persons like cansoriousness, AMI
"a id iesomt, uneasy disposition, and as
Genoting spirit In them Just as
when Jesus Christ denounced the scribes
and pnarisecs and leading professors Of
his day, they said, He hath DEVIL
Way, ne Ia denouDciny our doctors Of
@ivlnity, and Al our best men, and even
dar"s to cali me scribes and phaisees
hypocri,eo, I'd he tells us thateXceptour
righteousness she exc led theirs, we
can In No lis, enter the Kingdom Of
he.Yen Woas Q bad spirit no has"
a large part OF the church at the
present day sve the .same spirit. and
every effort TO open the eyes of the
en- and to mako Christians see that
they ii 20 SO low, 30 worldly. SO much
IKE hypocrl 4, thst il is impossible
eae work OF ;he Lord should OF on, only
excites i'll will and occasions reproach.
20" they say, what bad spirit he
SHOWS, 40 censorious, and 80 unkind
surely that ls anything but the meek,
ana Kind, aud loving spirit of the Son Of
God They forget that Jesus Christ
poured out ansthemas, enough to mako
the hills OF Judea shake, against those
that had the r. pusstion OF being the
most pious people in that day just az
II Jesus Christ never said ANYTHING
severe to anybody, but just fawned over
tnem' and spothed them into his king |
dom. Who ,es not know that it was
abe h pocitcAl Spirit exhibited by nro.
fessors OF religion. that reused His soul |
and moved b indignation, and called |
forth his burning torrents Of denuDcis-
tion. DE va always planning of the |
very people we're set up SIS patterns
al piety, and called them bypocrites
and thundered over their heads terrible
words "RpW can ye escape the dampa
zion OF hell :"
1t 10 not onderful, when so many
rove the praise Of men moro than the
praise OF q d. that there should be ex-
ettement when the truth is tod Tbev
arc very well satisfied with the standard
OF piety as IL is, and think that while
the people arc doing so much for Sab
bash schools, and missions, and tracts.
snat is doing pretty we'll, and they
Won Ter what the man would have. Alas
alas for their blindness They do not