43. Also turned the edge of his sword. When he
goes to war he is as unsuccessful as though his sword refused to cut, and gave
way like a sword of lead. His weapons fail him. And hast not made him to stand in the battle. His heart fails him as well as his sword—he wavers, he
falls. At this present the church has few swords of true Jerusalem metal; her
sons are pliable, her ministers yield to pressure. We need men whose edge
cannot be turned, firm for truth, keen against error, sharp towards sin.
Charity towards heresy is the fashionable vice, and indifference to all truth,
under the name of liberal-mindedness, is the crowning virtue of the age.
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