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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Mar 4, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 9.

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THE WISDOM OF WORDS.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Too often the "wisdom of words" explains the gospel away. It is possible to refine a doctrine till the very soul of it is gone; you may draw such nice distinctions that the true meaning is filtered away. Certain divines tell us that they must adapt the truth to the advance of the age, which means that they must murder it and fling its dead body to the dogs. It is asserted that the advanced philosophy of the nineteenth century requires a progressive theology to keep abreast of it; which simply means that a popular lie shall take the place of an offensive truth. Under pretense of winning the cultured intellects of the age, "the wisdom of words" has gradually landed us in a denial of those first principles for which the martyrs died. Apologies for the gospel, in which the essence of it is conceded to the unbeliever, are worse than infidelity. I hate that defense of the gospel which razes it to the ground to preserve it from destruction.—C. H. Spurgeon.