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Daily Monitor, Or, Reflections for Each Day in the Year (1828)
Daily Monitor Or Reflections for Each Day in the Year - 1828 Author:Charles Brooks Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 66 OXE USE Of A WISE cHARITY. FEBRUAUY 27. God will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. So it is the wish of true... more » christian charity, to have all men obey the truth and he saved. -- There arc various offices and duties in christian charity. The one which I would press upon your conduct, regards religious principle. Whatever the christian's opinion about truth or error may be, one principle, one most important principle, he never can or will forget ; wherever else he may err, he knows that the eternal welfare of his brother is a consideration more important than all beside. When, therefore, he wishes to correct an error of a speculative kind, it will be his business, above all things, so to do it as most carefully to guard the grand principles of religion ; so as not, if possible, to weaken the feelings of genuine piety in a single bosom. It must be owned that in an abrupt transition from a grossly erroneous to a purer system of faith, sacrifices of this sort always have been, and it is feared always must be made. Infidelity must have a few victims where superstition has long bound her ten thousands in chains ; but " woe be to him by whom the offence," through wilful inattention or sinful carelessness for the best interests of his fellow creatures, "comcth." Anxiety about the spread of truth, is not unfrequently accompanied by remissness in pressing that truth home to the conscience. Let us guard this point well. Of what moment is the poor and paltry triumph of gaining a convert to our opinions, in comparison with having awakened devout feelings, pressed home the admonitions of scripture to the conscience, and turned the sinner from the crrour of his ways ? Yet it is not that instruction in Doctrines is either needless or exceptionable...« less