Bad Conundrums

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1881

BAD CONUNDRUMS.—The conundrum Christian is one of those irregular, spasmodic, impulsive, one-sided, half-baked Christians, that is to-day up, and to-morrow down, to-day hot, to-morrow cold; to-day he is devout, to-morrow he is frivolous. Now he is liberal, now niggardly. He is a jumble of inconsistencies. If he has a good trait, he is sure to have a half-dozen others, as some one has said, that "put it to shame." Is there a flaming revival in progress? This man's presence and noisy zeal may be confidently counted on, blazing away, comet-like, with a transcendent glow of fervor and pretense, and ready with much volubility to rebuke the more unassuming, but really also, quite likely, the more pious, devoted, humble brethren, for their tardiness and languor: only, however, to subside with the special excitement itself, and then to remain as the hills of Nova Zembla during all the rest of the year. Alas! how many conundrums of this sort the churches have to carry!—Examiner and Chronicle.