DANIEL WEBSTER AND THE GOSEPL OF CHRIST – 

 

“The Gospel is either true history, or it is a consummate fraud; it is either a reality or an imposition. Christ was what He professed to be, or He was an imposter. There is no other alternative. His spotless life in His earnest enforcement of the truth – His suffering in its defense, forbid us to suppose that He was suffering an illusion of a heated brain. Every act of His pure and holy life shows that He was the author of truth, the advocate of truth, the earnest defender of truth, and the uncompromising sufferer for truth.” 

“Now, considering the purity of His doctrines, the simplicity of His life, and the sublimity of His death, is it possible the He would have died for an illusion? In all his preaching the Savior made no popular appeals; His discourses were always directed to the individual. Christ and His apostles sought to impress upon every man the conviction that he must stand or fall alone – he must live for himself, and die for himself, and give up his account to the omniscient God as though he were the only dependent creature in the universe." 

"The Gospel leaves the individual sinner alone with himself and his God. To his own Master he stands or falls. He has nothing to hope from the aid and sympathy of associates. The deluded advocates of new doctrines do not so preach. Christ and His apostles, had they been deceivers, would not so have preached. If clergymen in our days would return to the simple simplicity of the Gospel, and preach more to individuals and less to the crowd, there would not be so much complaint of the decline of true religion.”

“Many of the ministers of the present day take their text from Sr. Paul, and preach from the newspapers. When they do so, I prefer to enjoy my own thoughts rather than to listen. I want my Pastor to come to me in the spirit of the Gospel, saying: ‘You are mortal! Your probation is brief; your work must be done speedily; you are immortal, too. You are hastening to the bar of God; the Judge standeth at the door.” When I am thus admonished, I have no disposition to muse or to sleep.”Daniel Webster (1782 – 1852)

 

NOTE: 

Daniel Webster is considered to be among the greatest orators in American history. He was an infamous politician and diplomat. Webster served as a United States Congressman, a U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State for Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. This is a confident declaration of this American statesman. Daniel Webster boldly declared his convictions.