THE FORBIDDEN THING.
BACKSLIDING CHRISTIANS,
“Sympathy with the forbidden tliinpr and a charitable attitude towards the world’s frivolities often lead to the backsliding of Christian people,” remarked the Bev. .J. IV. Kemp, at the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle on Sunday evening. “Only this morning I saw young men going out in sporting costumes, gaily swinging their tennis racquets, others going boating and picnicking, and to other forms of pleasuremaking. Such conditions have been created in these modern days that make it possible for them to do these things without a blush and without-tfear of rebuke. As a minister I deplore these things, but I have no quarrel with the unconverted. But when I find Christian people pushing off their launches from the steps, and others making preparations for the holding in their homes of Sabbath festivities, then I regard them as backsliders, and in (he admonition of Moses, I declare that (lie land which they possess shall be taken from them and they shall utterly fail. A child of Clod who allows himself to be charitable towards the mis-doings of others is himself in danger of slip ping.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3016, 27 March 1926, Page 1
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187THE FORBIDDEN THING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3016, 27 March 1926, Page 1
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