Preaching Repentance and Conversion

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 14, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 15.

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Preaching Repentance and Conversion

BISHOP WARREN of the M. E. church says that many preachers are so gentle of the feelings of sinners, especially if the sinners are rich, that they preach the gospel something after this style: "Brethren, you must repent, as it were; and be converted, in a measure; or you will be damned, to some extent." It is too true that modern preachers very seldom repeat Christ's unequivocal and emphatic statement, that "he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."