Satan’s Snares Set Openly
“SURELY in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.” So said the wise man, and he spoke the truth. This truth, however, simply shows that birds are wiser than human beings. The net is continually being spread in the sight of men, and they walk into it with open eyes. Satan’s snares are nowadays set so openly that none can fail to see them; yet few shun them. Men visit the gin-mill just as regularly as though they were not annually grinding into perdition the souls of a hundred thousand people; and the voice of her whose steps take hold on hell finds a thousand ready listeners to one who heeds the cry of wisdom, saying, “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”