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Today, there is no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the principles of the doctrines of Christ. But too many of these seem satisfied to teach the fundamentals of the faith year after year. They're strangely unaware their ministry fails to reveal the presence of God, and their personal lives contain little reality, only unbridled emotion or intellectual satisfaction. They minister constantly to believers who feel within their breasts a longing, which their teaching simply does not satisfy.

I trust I speak in love, but this lack in our pulpits is real. Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.

The truth of John Wesley's words is established before our eyes: "Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right attitudes cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right attitudes. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right attitude toward Him. Satan is a proof of this."

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