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I am in the midst of reading some challenging articles (translated from French) in the Christian Miscellany by a French Protestant minister, Napoléon Roussel. One point he makes is that those who see little or no need to give of their finances toward the work of the kingdom of God are deluding themselves with cheap virtues and an easy piety:
Many people, who prefer their money to all else, build for themselves plans of salvation, into which they bring many cheap virtues, an easy piety, and reserve the dearly loved purse to themselves, for their favourite projects—their carnal plans—their earthly pleasures.
Napoléon Roussel, ‘Your Purse or Your Life! Part II.”, Christian Miscellany, 1, no. 3 (15 January 1842), p. 22.
N.B. When this man gets mentioned or quoted in much of the British evangelical literature from this period, he is referred to as N. Roussel. I guess someone with the name of Napoléon might not have been the flavour of the month in Britain for the generation that lived after the end of the Napoleonic wars.
Many people, who prefer their money to all else, build for themselves plans of salvation, into which they bring many cheap virtues, an easy piety, and reserve the dearly loved purse to themselves, for their favourite projects—their carnal plans—their earthly pleasures.
Napoléon Roussel, ‘Your Purse or Your Life! Part II.”, Christian Miscellany, 1, no. 3 (15 January 1842), p. 22.
N.B. When this man gets mentioned or quoted in much of the British evangelical literature from this period, he is referred to as N. Roussel. I guess someone with the name of Napoléon might not have been the flavour of the month in Britain for the generation that lived after the end of the Napoleonic wars.
