The following quote is from Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
"We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say
four hundred years ago...but such a man today is a nuisance, and must be put
down. Call him a narrow minded bigot or give him a worse name, if you can think
of one.
"Yet imagine that in those ages past Luther,
Zwingli, Calvin and their compeers had said, 'The world is out of order,
but if we try to get it right we shall only make a great row, and get
ourselves into disgrace. Let us go to our chambers, put on our night caps, and
sleep over the bad times, and perhaps when we wake up things will have grown
better.'
"Such conduct on their part would have entailed
upon us a heritage of error. Age after age would have
gone down into the infernal deeps, and the pestiferous
bogs of error would have swallowed all. These men loved the faith and the love
of Jesus too well to see them trampled on.
"It is today as it was in the Reformer's days.
Decision is needed. Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day?
We who have had the gospel passed to us by martyr hands dare not trifle with
it, nor sit by and hear it denied by traitors, who pretend to love it but
inwardly abhor every line of it...look you, sirs, there are ages yet to come.
"If the Lord does not speedily appear, there will
come another generation, and another, and all those generations will be tainted
and injured if we are not faithful to God and to his truth today. We have come
to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children
and our children's children will go that way. But if we turn to the left,
generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God
and to his Word."
