Nothing new under the sun
There were few things that Mr. M’Cheyne more dreaded than “worldly amusements” in the families of professing Christians, especially of ministers.
Let those who think that he was narrow-minded and too rigid, test his views by our Lord’s words concerning the world, or by the epistles of His apostles afterwards, especially those of the beloved disciple. “The extent to which novel-reading, dancing parties, private theatricals, card-playing, luxurious feasting and dressing, loose, frivolous, and profane song-singing, with other exhibitions of utter worldliness, prevail even in professedly
Christian families, with the sanction and under the eye of office-bearers in the Church, would hardly be believed. Can we wonder at so many of the children of apparently good men turning out ill, when we know that ‘Love not the world’ was no maxim in their training?” Such is the statement of one who knew something about the ways of “Christian families.” It was no Puritan who called the world “an infinite masquerade.”
Of the same spirit was John Milne. Of the same tone was his ministry. And “love not the world” came well from his lips; for he lived what he preached. No man could suspect him of loving the world, or caring for its pleasures, or its gold, or its literature, or its company.
From
Bonar, Horatius: Life of the Rev. John Milne of Perth, London 1869, quoted in http://www.masterstrumpet.org/issue1.pdf
We currently have a copy of this biography of M'Cheyne's friend, a Free Church minister and missionary to India, for sale at GBP 38.50
Let those who think that he was narrow-minded and too rigid, test his views by our Lord’s words concerning the world, or by the epistles of His apostles afterwards, especially those of the beloved disciple. “The extent to which novel-reading, dancing parties, private theatricals, card-playing, luxurious feasting and dressing, loose, frivolous, and profane song-singing, with other exhibitions of utter worldliness, prevail even in professedly
Christian families, with the sanction and under the eye of office-bearers in the Church, would hardly be believed. Can we wonder at so many of the children of apparently good men turning out ill, when we know that ‘Love not the world’ was no maxim in their training?” Such is the statement of one who knew something about the ways of “Christian families.” It was no Puritan who called the world “an infinite masquerade.”
Of the same spirit was John Milne. Of the same tone was his ministry. And “love not the world” came well from his lips; for he lived what he preached. No man could suspect him of loving the world, or caring for its pleasures, or its gold, or its literature, or its company.
From
Bonar, Horatius: Life of the Rev. John Milne of Perth, London 1869, quoted in http://www.masterstrumpet.org/issue1.pdf
We currently have a copy of this biography of M'Cheyne's friend, a Free Church minister and missionary to India, for sale at GBP 38.50
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