THE WARRIOR’S USE OF THE SWORD.
THE use of the sword to the warrior is not that he may defend it, and try by extraneous means to show his enemies how good a sword it is; it is given him as a means of defense and aggressive warfare. So with the Bible. The Watchman says: “One of the marked characteristics of the late Dr. A. J. Gordon as a preacher was the absolute confidence with which he appealed to the Scriptures. Many preachers spend their strength in seeking to show that what the Bible says is true. Dr. Gordon began by assuming that what the Bible says is true, and then went on to show what that truth meant for those to whom he was speaking. Strange to say that, tho this was his constant method, he was one of the most successful preachers to college students this country has produced. From Princeton, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, and Brown the testimony is all one way. The ministers who think that their chief business is to defend the Scriptures may find a hint in this.”