Christianity Misrepresented by Bad Examples
It is a sad fact that Christianity has been basely misrepresented by many of its professed friends, and thus greatly damaged in the estimation of skeptics. Bad example often causes reproach to the Lord of glory. But if critics would exercise just a little common sense, they would see that the bad conduct of a professing Christian bears no more relation to pure Christianity than counterfeit coins do to the genuine article. Like the counterfeit coins, evil conduct in bogus Christians merely shows, by contrast, the intrinsic value of the pure and true. Skeptics admit the existence of the true by their free application of the term hypocrite to those who act dishonestly.—Sel.