Friday, March 14, 2008 2:02 PM
Karch
On Being Cool
The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from "Unto You, Young Men," a sermon on 1 John 2:14, preached Wednesday evening, May 13th, 1868, at Westminster Chapel, London.
here
are some who would think it far worse to be considered unfashionable
than to be thought unchristian. To be unchristian would be but such a
common accusation that they might submit to it; but
to
be unfashionable would be horrible indeed! Young men in London get to
be affected by this. If the young men in the house are going to
such-and-such an entertainment—they all read a certain class of
books—if they are dissipated and skeptical, then the temptation is to
chime in with them, and only the man who is strong, and hath the word
of God abiding in him, will overcome the wicked one by doing the right
alone. "Faithful among the faithless found."
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