The Assembly of God

Essays on the Christian religion, first published in 1898. The book begins: "The sentence which we have just penned occurs in Paul's second Epistle to his beloved son Timothy--an epistle marked, as we know, by intense individuality. All thoughtful students of Scripture have noticed the striking contrast between the two Epistles of Paul to Timothy. In the first, the Church is presented in its order, and Timothy is instructed as to how he is to behave himself therein. In the second, on the contrary, the Church is presented in its ruin. The house of God has become the great house, in the which there are vessels to dishonor as well as vessels to honor; and where, moreover, errors and evils abound--heretical teachers and false professors, on every hand.”