Full often the most advantageous place for our manhood is that which is surrounded with splendid difficulties. It is well to have Christ’s portrait hung up in every chamber of your soul; I do not say of your house—that might lead to idolatry; but in every chamber of your mind and heart. Those who preach the cross of our Lord Jesus are the terror of modern thinkers. In their heart of hearts they dread the preaching of the old-fashioned Gospel, and they hate what they dread. Those who follow after
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