"'Drifting' is the thing to be afraid of. Just as some boat, not made
fast to the bank, certainly glides down stream so quietly and with so
little friction that her passengers do not know that they are moving
until they come up on deck, and see new fields around them, so the
'things which we have heard,' and to which we ought to be moored or
anchored, we shall drift, drift, drift, drift away from, and, in nine
cases out of ten, shall not feel that we are moving, till we
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"'Drifting' is the thing to be afraid of. Just as some boat, not made
fast to the bank, certainly glides down stream so quietly and with so
little friction that her passengers do not know that they are moving
until they come up on deck, and see new fields around them, so the
'things which we have heard,' and to which we ought to be moored or
anchored, we shall drift, drift, drift, drift away from, and, in nine
cases out of ten, shall not feel that we are moving, till we
are roused by hearing
the noise of the whirlpools and the falls close ahead of us; and look
round and see a strange country." (Alexander MacLaren) Are you drifting
today? Are you leaving Christ without knowing it?
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