“WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE.”
Hosea 8:12: “I have written to him the great things of My law, but they were counted as a strange thing.” 2 Tim. 4:3: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.” “What shall I preach about?” said a minister to the pastor of a colored flock, which he was to address in one of the southern States of the American union. “Well, mos’ any subject will be ‘ceptable,” was the reply; “only I like to gib you one word ob caution.” “Ah! what is that?” “Well, ef I was you, I’d touch wery light on dem Ten Commandments.” “Indeed! and why?” “O, cos I hab notise dat dey mos’ always hab a damp’nin’ effec’ on de congregation.” The pastor of the colored flock and his audience are not the only ones of the kind. The plain facts of the Bible have a very dampening “effec’” on a large number of Caucasian audiences; and not a few of their pastors have learned that the “Ten Commandments” are very unpopular.—Australian Bible Echo.