The following was written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, D.D. and is from a book of his writings published in 1901 called Thoughts for Everyday Living. This particular writing is a good lesson for all Christians to remind them their duty for this life: NOT making heaven on earth but making disciples from earth!
"How utterly opposed to the thought of Jesus Christ is all asceticism, all religious isolation and retreat from the world. His aim was not to get His followers out of the world, but to get them into the world. Society, not solitude, is the natural home of Christianity. The Christian is not to flee from the contagion of evil, but to meet it with the contact of health and holiness. The church is not to be built on glass posts for moral insulation, but among the homes of common men for moral transformation. What use is a light under a bushel? It must shine where there is darkness. The place of need is the field of duty, though we are not to be of the world, we are to be first and last in the world and for the world."
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