Dr. Chas. F. Aked said in a recent sermon, concerning the multiplicity
of modern faiths and fads:
I have not been in this country twenty months yet, but I am
quite certain that there have been twenty new gospels launched
upon an astonished public during that time. I remember one that
was to take possession of the church to win the world to Christ
inside of the next twelve months. The publisher sent me a copy
of the book for my opinion, and I wrote him that I did not care
two straws about that sort of thing, but before the ink in my
signature was dry a friend called on me and I asked him how Dr.
So and So’s scheme was getting on. “Oh,” he said, “he is about
through with it.”
I said, “Why I have only just got his book from the publisher.”
“That does not make any difference,” said my friend. “But,” I
said, “how can he have got through with it already?” He said,
“Have not you been here long enough to know how easily we take a
thing up and how much more easily we drop it again?” (Text.)
New gospels come and go, but there is one gospel that abides.
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=Failings of Christians=--See CYNIC REBUKED.