STATUARY CHRISTIANS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 13, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 15.

STATUARY CHRISTIANS.

It is said that when Oliver Cromwell visited Yorkminster Cathedral in England he saw in one of the apartments statues of the twelve apostles wrought in silver. "Who are those fellows there?" he asked, as he approached them. On being informed, he replied: "Take them down and let them go about doing good." They were taken down, melted, and put into his treasury. There are many to-day who, like these silver apostles, are too stiff for service in much of the Lord's work—some too nice, some too formal, some disinclined. They stand or sit stately in their dignity, and sinners go unsaved, believers uncomforted, unhelped, for all the effort they will make to lift a hand to serve them. They need to be melted down and sent about doing good. Statuary Christians, however elegant and burnished they may be, are of little real service in the cause of Jesus.—Bible Teacher.