"Come, ye children of God, you must stand out with your Lord outside the camp. Jesus calls to you to-day, and says, 'Follow me.' Was Jesus found at the theater? Did he frequent the sports of the racecourse? Was Jesus seen, think you, in any of the amusements of the Herodian court? Not he. He was 'holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.' In one sense no one mixed with sinners so completely as he did when, like a physician, he went among them healing his patients; but in another sense there was a gulf fixed between the men of the world and the Savior which he never essayed to cross, and which they could not cross to defile him. The first lesson which the church has to learn is this: Follow Jesus into the separated state, and he will make you fishers of men. Unless you take up your cross and protest against an ungodly world, you cannot hope that the holy Jesus will make you fishers of men." (Emphasis mine); (Source: How to Become Fishers of Men)
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