It would almost be a blessing if a wave of scarlet fever or small-pox
could visit some city just after a revival and sweep into heaven thousands
who had been converted before they were given a chance to backslide.
Lots of people never get any place to backslide from.
The man who keeps his store open on Sunday is an anarchist. I don’t
mean the hotel man or the restaurant proprietor, for some things are an
absolute necessity.
You never saw a dancing, card-playing and theatre-gadding church member
that amounted to the snap of your finger.
Belonging to a church won’t save you. A thief can be a church member.
There’s too much playing tag with God, and hide-and-seek with the devil
nowadays.
There’s too much joining the church today and too little joining Jesus.
Even preachers, elders, deacons and stewards may not be members of the
body of Christ, but merely church members.