TIMES ARE CHANGED

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 50.

TIMES ARE CHANGED.

MR. SPURGEON has been, and is, a tower dauntless for the truth. He deserves all praise. He has stood like a bulwark against error. He still blows his bugle blasts. He says: "We are more than ever forced into this fight to-day. Thirty years ago things were very different from what they are now. It was easy to gather a congregation then compared with what it is now; the spirit of hearing is departing from our cities. Cavaliers and questioners are to-day far more numerous than they were thirty years ago. One finds among Christian professors shoals of infidels. Ministers are, in large numbers, sowers of doubt. One who is reputed to preach evangelically told his young men the other day that a page of Huxley was worth all that Moses had written in Genesis. I know a

convert from Mahommedanism who has been greatly staggered while in England by what he has heard from Christian teachers. Many ministers are more at home in undermining the gospel than in the conversion of souls. Let us, therefore, look well to our weapons, and be in earnest to defend the truth of God. I charge you, each one, to do his part, and play the man in this evil day."—Selected.