The corruption of the Christian World, and the almost general lukewarmness of those who have some respect for religion, render it impossible to preach openly and constantly the deep truths of Christianity without giving general offense.

How naturally, having made some efforts towards salvation, do we repose ourselves as if we were at the end of our career! Perhaps we even think ourselves sure of the prize before we have begun the race! And if any one
should venture to show us the folly and danger of such conduct, we regard him as melancholy person, who considers only the dark side of things, and who takes a sorrowful pleasure to make us view them in the same light with himself. manifestations of God in both the Old and New Testaments.

This is the one of the reasons why those who are commissioned to shew us the way of salvation, are afraid to dwell upon what Jesus Christ has said concerning the difficulties of the way, and the small number of those that walk therein.