Channing on Christ’s Denunciations

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 26, 1865

Channing on Christ’s Denunciations

A SKEPTIC visited the late Rev. Dr. Wm. E. Channing, and told him that he could not reconcile the terrible denunciations in the twenty-third chapter of Matthew, with the meekness and compassion of the Saviour. “Let us know,” said the Doctor, “what in particular troubles you;” and taking up the New Testament, he began to read the passages with the sweet solemnity of his voice. He had not proceeded far before his critic said, “Ah, if the Saviour denounced in a tone like that, I have nothing more to say.”