"Far From the Flames"

Taken from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening:  "The world loves not the nonconformity of nonconformity, or the dissidence of dissent.  Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise, and talks of "moderation".   'What's the good of crying down a thing when it is so fashionable, and everybody does it?'  Multitudes of professors yield to this cunning advice, to their own eternal ruin.  When the town is on fire, our house cannot be too far from the flames.  When the plague is abroad, a man cannot be too far from its haunts.  The further from the viper the better, and the further from worldly conformity the better."
                          Lord, I desire to live as one who bears a blood-bought name,
                        As one who fears but grieving Thee, and knows no other shame.