Don’t fear the militant atheists
This from Spurgeon really made me smile:
Behold the host of doubters, and heretics, and revilers, who, at the present time, have come up into the inheritance of Israel, hungry from their deserts of rationalism and atheism! They are eating up all the corn of the land. They cast a doubt upon all the verities of our faith.
But we need not fear them; for if we heard their secret counsels, we should perceive that they are afraid of us. Their loud blusterings and their constant sneers are the index of real fear. Those who preach the cross of our Lord Jesus are the terror of modern thinkers. In their heart of hearts they dread the preaching of the old-fashioned gospel, and they hate what they dread. On their beds they dream of the coming of some evangelist into their neighborhood. What the name of Richard was to the Saracens, that is the name of Moody to these boastful intellects. They wish they could stop those Calvinistic fellows and those evangelical old fogies.
Brethren, so long as the plain gospel is preached in England there will always be hope that these brigands will yet be scattered, and the church be rid of their intrusion. Rationalism, Socinianism, Ritualism, and Universalism will soon take to their legs, if the clear, decided cry of “the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon” be once more heard.
You’ve gotta love his style!
Tags: Christianity
January 10th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Love it.
January 11th, 2011 at 10:15 am
I wonder what he’d be saying now. Sword of the Lord and Gideon doesn’t exactly seem to be working.
January 11th, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Actually it’s not the atheists that worry me – it’s people who are happy to blow me up for God – whether it’s suicide bombers or Sarah Palin’s lot.
January 12th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Hmm… Call me a killjoy but I’d call this wishful thinking over 100 years past its sell by date!