We hear grand theories of a theocracy of a kind unknown to Holy Scripture—a semi-political dominion of the Lord
over masses wherein the individuals are unregenerate. We listen to great swelling words about the uplifting of nations
and the advancement of the race. But these lofty ideas do not produce facts, nor have they any moral power. Our
“cultured” teachers are weary of the humdrum work of bringing individual souls into light. They want to do it
wholesale, by a far more rapid process than that of personal salvation. They are tired of the units—their great minds
dwell upon “the solidarity of the race.”
I am bold to assert that if ever we despise the method of individual conversion we shall get into an unsound order of
business altogether and find ourselves wrecked upon the rocks of hypocrisy.
~Spurgeon, "One Lost Sheep", April 28, 1889
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