we are not Puritan enough...

Despite yesterdays's questioning of his Christian status, Rufus Ellis was  a "conservative among the liberals."  This from an unpublished sermon...

"We are not Puritan enough. We excuse when we ought to reproach ourselves. Are we waiting for God to bring into judgment our compromises and conformities and insincerities, — waiting for the refiner's fire and for the fuller's soap, bowing the head like a bulrush, instead of breaking every yoke? — only sorry enough for our sins to confess, but not sorry enough to forsake them?"

Blessings