PEOPLE WHO STAND AROUND

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 20.

PEOPLE WHO STAND AROUND.

“But because of the multitude that standeth around I said it.” Mr. Spurgeon, once preaching on this incident, illustrated it in this striking manner: “It would seem to all who knew you a very odd thing if you were seen loafing about a certain shop for an hour and a half one day in the week for twenty years, and yet you never bought a penny’s worth of goods. Why do you hang about the Gospel-shop and yet purchase nothing? On your own showing you are a fool. I do not like using a hard word, still it is used in Scripture for such as you are. He who believes a thing to be so important that he spends one day in the week in hearing about it, and yet does not think it important enough to accept it as a gift, stultifies himself.”