Secret Disciples

“Some of you who love the Lord have never yet told anybody. You are secret Christians—you hide away behind pillar and post. Oh, but God’s Word is very sweet to you, you say, as you eat your morsel of bread in the corner! So it is, but you would have another and a greater sweetness if you would come out and avow that you love the Lord! I am sure you would. In fact, there is many a child of God who never enjoys the full sweetness of religion because he has not had the courage to confess Christ before men. I wish that some of you halting ones, you who are much-afraid and fearing, would obey the whole of the Gospel. You know the Gospel—‘He who believes and is baptized shall be saved.’ ‘With the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.’”—1893, Sermon #2340