At a party given to some of the noted and wealthy of the land, where everything was accumulated that could minister to the gratification of the senses, a lady, accosting a gentleman, who had once made a high profession of following Christ, but who had turned back to the world, said to him, “I am surprised to see you here, Mr.-. What can you want here? This is no place for you.” Was not this an arrow from the Lord, which should have pierced the heart of the one who was thus addressed?
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever” (1 John 2:1515Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1 John 2:15)). “If any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him” (Heb. 10:3838Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (Hebrews 10:38)).