What is the Idol of Our Day? by John Angell James (1852)

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One of the evils of our age is an excessive love of pleasure, which leads to self-indulgence, and rids the mind of sober thought and true piety.

Love of Pleasure is the Idol of Our Day

This is one of the growing tendencies of the day in which we live. Love of Pleasure threatens infinite damage to the present and future welfare of mankind, by bringing on an age of frivolity, sensuality, and practical atheism.

Find your pleasure, young men, in the improvement of your mind, in an attention to duties, in true piety, and in active benevolence. Is there not scope enough for enjoyment here?

Excessive Worldliness is the Idol of Our Day

This is another of the dangers of this age. In our wealthy and materialistic country, there is most imminent peril of sinking into the mere worldling, and living only to get wealth. Never was there so great a danger of having the conscience be numbed, moral principles prostrated, the heart rendered callous, the intellect emptied of its strength, as there is in the age in which we live!

Wealth is the Idol of Our Day

Wealth is the idol of our day! Without watchfulness and prayer, you are in danger of bowing devoutly at its shrine, becoming its worshipers, and
sacrificing your souls as a burnt-offering on its altars!

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces!” Ezekiel 14:3

Excerpted from “The Young Man’s Friend and Guide through Life to Immortality” by John Angell James (1852)

Quotes from the Cloud of Witnesses

The human heart is an idol-making factory. ― John Calvin

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior. ― Martin Luther

You don’t have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full of them. Whatever you love more than God is your idol.. ― Dwight L. Moody

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship. ― G.K. Chesterton

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand. ― A. W. Tozer

If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory! ― Adrian Rogers

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