The Comet and the Sun

“We gaze more on a comet than on the sun This is the reason why erratic teachers are for a while popular, and attract public attention. It is given out that they are “some great one,” and all the town is staring with open mouth. The nine days’ wonder is every day’s talk. The new teaching is something marvellous, and the old creed is to be driven out of the land. New lights are to eclipse the old; at least, so we are told. Let us wait a while, however, and the comet will have vanished, and the half-forgotten fixed stars will be seen to be shining on with unfading splendour.

May the Lord give us such fixed and established judgments that no novelties of doctrine may ever dazzle us. Children are fond of new toys; let us be men and keep to the tried word of the Lord.