Octavius Winslow, The Sympathy Of Christ – ‘In a world like this, where there is so much evil to correct, so much temptation to resist, so much sorrow to soothe, so much want to supply, so much misery to counteract, so much ignorance to instruct, so much good to be done, none need be… idle, dreaming away existence, vegetating in selfishness, not living for man or laboring for God… Life is too real, too solemn, too responsible, (too short), for sluggishness, inactivity, and selfishness. We are gliding down the stream onward to eternity. Shall we spend our fleeting moments in grasping at the floating straw… Souls are perishing, ignorance of the gospel is prevailing – iniquity is abounding – Satan is unslumbering… Shall we not, then, be active and earnest in a world like this?’ – pp.200-201 (published in June 1862)
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
