Gold Nugget 351 - Crawling Craftiness

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      Until conventional Christianity is banished from the land, and the Christianity of the sermon on the mount is restored, the moral condition of the human race will sink lower and lower …

      Everywhere men trade in the gospel, and the trade is carried on with all the passionate avarice, foul fallacies, and flatulent puffings that characterize the market.  Pulpits are regarded as means of livelihood, chapels and churches are become shops, ecclesiastics are the grandees of the world, robed in costly attire and rolling in chariots of opulence.  Institutions abound and multiply, baptized with the name of Christian, where men of feeble talent but crawling craftiness creep into offices of salary and show.

      I protest that conventional Christianity is not the Christianity of Christ – a Devine entity that “seeketh not her own.”  The Christ exhibited in the creeds and institutions is as unlike the Christ of the Gospels, as the mechanical force of the manufacturing machine, throwing off commodities for trade, is unlike that vital energy in nature that clothes the landscape with verdure and fills the earth and the water with countless tribes of life.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Revelation p. 427, Revelation 17:1-7, (R. Green)

 

Gold Nugget 351

Crawling Craftiness

     

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