Wisdom of the Ages: M. B. Cockrill (1897)

Rev. M. B. Cockrill wrote in “The Pentecost Herald” on Wednesday, August 11, 1897:

• When a camp-meeting ceases to save souls it ought to cease to exist.
• A white necktie and spotless shirt front don’t prove that the owner has a pure heart.
• There is a negative and a positive side to Christianity.  The positive is what we must do, the negative what we must not do.
• Someone has called attention to the fact that the word “blessed” begins both the Psalms and the Sermon on the Mount.
• If a man is not bearing a clear, ringing testimony to entire sanctification, it is because he is not clearly in the experience.
• A Christian has no right to stand in the way of sinners – no, not so much as by a look or word or act, much less by the whole trend of his life.
• Every Christian whose life is not strictly exemplary, is hindering some one from coming to Christ.  A blustering testimony and active work in church matters cannot atone for a slack life.
• Wailing in the counsel of the ungodly is positively forbidden in the Word of God.  We cannot take the world’s advice, nor can we observe its maxims in business, society or elsewhere, without sin.
• You only swear occasionally, or occasionally smoke a cigar, or occasionally break the Sabbath, or occasionally back-bite your neighbor – it is often the occasional deeds which show most surely the real life.