p. 21 | A Dangerous Tendency by Archbishop Tait

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1886

A Dangerous Tendency.

By Archbishop Tait

HERE, I fear, is a dangerous tendency of the age we live in—to regard sin rather as a misfortune or a mistake than as a fault and corruption. No one can object to the generous impulse which leads us to make due allowance for those who grow up, through no fault of their own, under unfavorable influences; and a merciful God, no doubt, considers and makes due allowance for the inevitable disadvantages under which so many human souls are reared. But still, sin is sin, and right is right, and the true church of God never falters in its condemnation of the one and its upholding of the other. It is its special business to form and maintain an elevated public opinion, based on the standard of the word of God.—Archbishop Tait.