C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
In his biography of W. H. Burns, Islay Burns describes the sad spiritual and religious climate of late eighteenth century Scotland. I was struck with how aptly it describes our own day and age.
“Error spoke aloud with clear and unfaltering tongue on the high places of the land, while truth, scorned and down-trodden, uttered its voice with stammering and muffled accents, and offered but a feeble resistance to the strong, triumphant tide of latitudinarian indifference that was rolling on.”
—Islay Burns, The Pastor of Kilsyth, Banner of Truth, p. 11.
—Islay Burns, The Pastor of Kilsyth, Banner of Truth, p. 11.