some reputation and that there may be money in the treasury to meet the church bills. I believe in being honest about it—let’s admit that we have to pull down the application of the gospel not to the standard of the one who is really thirsting after God, but to the one who is the most carnal, the cheapest saintling hanging on by the teeth anywhere in the kingdom of God! In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone,