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TIME SERVERS

The trimming, hesitating policy of many reminds us of Luther’s words to Erasmus: “You desire to walk upon eggs without crushing them, and among glasses without breaking them!” This is a difficult game to play at, and one which is more suitable for a clown at a theatre than a servant of Christ. When you are attempting to compromise, you have to look around you and move cautiously as a tight-rope dancer, for fear of offending on one side or the other. A little too much this way or that and over you go. A cat on hot cinders is in an enviable position. No true-hearted man will ever bear such wretched constraint for any length of time, or indeed at all. Think of being able to go no further than the aforementioned timorous, time-serving Erasmus, who said, “I will not be unfaithful to the cause of Christ; at least so far as the age will permit me.” Out upon such cowardice: life is too dear when bought at such a price.—Spurgeon.

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— March, 1881 —