Be troubled, ye careless ones
Besetting sins may be the defects of virtues
The besetting sins of either sex are its virtues prostituted.
A man’s greatest temptations proceed from his strength; but the glory of the feminine nature is repose, and trust is the strength of the feminine character, in which very things, however, lies all the possibility of woman’s degradation. (Prof g. A. Smith, D. D.)
The careless sinner reproved
I. I am to EXPOSTULATE WITH THOSE WHO ARE CARELESS IN THE CONCERNS OF RELIGION AND THEIR SOULS. The following things are submitted to your consideration:--
1. The importance of religion, which is neglected by you.
2. The beneficial proofs of the Divine agency which surround you.
3. Your personal obligations to God are neither few nor small.
4. The grand display of the love of God in giving His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, &c.
5. The certainty of judgment and a future state.
II. We are now to ADDRESS THESE EXPOSTULATIONS TO THE CONSIDERATION OF YOUTH, MANHOOD, AND AGE. (A. Shanks.)
An alarm to the careless
To be careless in temporal things is generally regarded as a very serious defect or offence. How much more so when one is careless in spiritual things! Yet this is characteristic of great numbers who hear the Gospel. Is there no cause for alarm? A careless attitude and habit towards God and Christ and salvation are--
1. Unreasonable,
2. Hazardous.
3. God-provoking. (J. M. Sherwood.)