Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard; they have trodden my portion under foot. Jeremiah xii, 10.
The pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord. Jeremiah x, 21.
Woe unto you, ye blind guides. Matthew xxiii, 16.
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. Titus i, 11.
Ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law. Malachi ii, 8.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, extort with all long suffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. II Timothy iv, 2, 3, 4, 5.
The great organ reverberated through the building. The choir sang of God's love to all creatures alike. Two women sat side by side, and the one of loftier mien bowed her head, and for the first time in her life felt the love of God in her heart; and the Witch went out from church happy, knowing that through her influence one soul was redeemed this Sabbath morning.