One Voice for the World, and Another for Christ
I used to tell a story of a brother I once knew who, at the prayer meeting, was accustomed to pray in such a way that I was always sorry when he got up, for nobody could hear him. I always thought that he had a very feeble voice. I had indistinctly heard the brother mutter something to God, and I felt that we had better not ask him again, for his voice was so thin.
But I stepped into his shop one day. He did not know that I was there, and I heard him call, “John, bring that half hundredweight.” “Oh,” I thought, “there is a very different tone in the business from what there is in the prayer meeting.”
It is symbolic of a great many people. They have one voice for the world, and another voice for Christ. What weight they throw into the ordinary engagements, and what little force and weight there is when they come to the things of God! I am afraid it has to do with a great many of us, and I put it in this way—if for the poor things of this world we have often manifested so much vigor, what ought to be expected of us—of us who are under such obligations to divine grace—in the service of such a Master in reference to eternal things?
Charles Spurgeon
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