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June
27
"Only
ye shall not go very far away." -- Exodus 8:28
This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the
poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them
that it shall not be very far away; not too far for them to escape the terror
of his arms, and the observation of his spies. After the same fashion, the
world loves not the non-conformity of nonconformity, or the dissidence of
dissent, it would have us be more charitable and not carry matters with too
severe a hand. Death to the world, and burial with Christ, are experiences
which carnal minds treat with ridicule, and hence the ordinance which sets them
forth is almost universally neglected, and even contemned. Worldly wisdom
recommends the path of compromise, and talks of "moderation."
According to this carnal policy, purity is admitted to be very desirable, but
we are warned against being too precise; truth is of course to be followed, but
error is not to be severely denounced. "Yes," says the world,
"be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny yourself a little gay
society, an occasional ball, and a Christmas visit to a theatre. What's the
good of crying down a thing when it is so fashionable, and everybody does
it?" Multitudes of professors yield to this cunning advice, to their own
eternal ruin. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into
the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind
us. We must leave its maxims, its pleasures, and its religion too, and go far
away to the place where the Lord calls His sanctified ones. When the town is on
fire, our house cannot be too far from the flames. When the plague is abroad, a
man cannot be too far from its haunts. The further from a viper the better, and
the further from worldly conformity the better. To all true believers let the
trumpet-call be sounded, "Come ye out from among them, be ye separate."