The Law and Sentimentalism

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 50.

The Law and Sentimentalism

There is a reason for this. And that reason is, the integrity and awful demands of the law of God are not now impressed upon the conscience. When ministers teach that the law is abolished, how can the sinner be convinced of his sin? For "by the law is the knowledge of sin." All such men as Luther, Wesley, Whitefield, etc., who had their work ended with great power, and worked such heart-repentance, preached the law; but when ministers will have abolished that by which sin is known there can be no other result than that so clearly set forth by the Advocate. The gospel that is now being preached is fast becoming a gospel of sentimentalism, and the only conversions there can be under such are sentimental "conversions."