To be near unto God - pagina 474

that we should defiantly meet the world that is offended at Christ, but it aims to inspire the disciples of the Lord to stand their ground when they would retreat, and to remain unmoved in the face of slander and disdain.

But do not forget that this word has its dangerous side, because it has often been misquoted and misapplied. This depends upon that which in your actions and words makes people disdain and persecute you, and to say all manner of evil against you. It may be true zeal for the cause of the Lord, but it may also be exaggeration, eccentricity or loveless bigotry; or, worse yet, it may be the gap that yawns between your confession and practice, hypocrisy which, in part, disAnd even if in the latter case figures your life. the reason of resisting the world may be zeal for the cause of Jesus, yet, in fact, so much of self mingles with it that the ''for my sake" with which Jesus conditioned his beatitude, only partially Yea, it may, and does happen, applies to you. that the mockery, disdain, and slander of the world, is invited almost so exclusively by your own sinful alloy, that even not a few of your fellow-believers are bound to take the part of the world against you, and far from calling you blessed in Jesus' name, feel instinctively that your example has hampered rather than helped the cause of the Lord. Understand this well. It does not mean to say that you are only right, when the world honors your loveableness of character, acknowledges 470

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