Gedanken

We Christians too often substitude prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience...

Oh, ich wünschte, alle Christen würden diese große Wahrheit glauben und praktizieren, dass sie nicht von der Welt sind, gleichwie Christus nicht von der Welt war...

THE TEN SPIES WERE CHOCOLATES. They melted and ran over the whole congregation of Israel...

You say you believe the Bible! Do your deeds give the lie to your words?...

If instead of obeying, we squat among the sheep, leaving our few hard-pressed brethren to tackle the wolves by themselves, verily we are but Chocolate Christians...

But here are other foot-tracks—outrageous ones: they can belong only to one man—that grandest of Christian paradoxes—the little giant Paul...

JOHN THE BAPTIST—a man taught and made and sent of God—good old John! Who doesn't love and admire him?...

DANIEL was another hero. Of course he was! Was he not the man greatly beloved of God who sent an angel to tell him so?...

NATHAN was another real Christian Soldier. He went to his king and rebuked him to his face...

They are Chocolate Soldiers who merely go to see battles, and coolly urge others to fight them. They had better save their journey money and use it to send out real fighters instead...