"Those who dare not venture out alone to obey the truth, may have their faith strengthened by considering some cases that are on record.
Paul says in Rom. 15:4, that "whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope."
The eleventh chapter of Hebrews contains a list of notable men.
We are referred to Noah, who "walked with God" in an age when the "wickedness of man was great in the earth," and "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
It must have been no slight effort for Noah to face the world with such an unpopular truth as that the world was to be destroyed by a flood.
No doubt he was jeered at in a most unmerciful manner, and considered a fool, but the event proved the wisdom of his course.
Had he waited for people enough to accept the truth for that time to make it respectable, before commencing to build the ark, he would have been drowned with the rest."
E.J.Waggoner
Paul says in Rom. 15:4, that "whatsoever things were written
The eleventh chapter of Hebrews contains a list of notable men.
We are referred to Noah, who "walked with God" in an age when the "wickedness of man was great in the earth," and "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
It must have been no slight effort for Noah to face the world with such an unpopular truth as that the world was to be destroyed by a flood.
No doubt he was jeered at in a most unmerciful manner, and considered a fool, but the event proved the wisdom of his course.
Had he waited for people enough to accept the truth for that time to make it respectable, before commencing to build the ark, he would have been drowned with the rest."
E.J.Waggoner