Dear friend,.. you call yourself a Christian..

but have you ever endeavored to come out of this present evil world and live a separate life unto Christ.. are you seeking after holiness.? I want this.. I want this badly.. if it doesn't lead to holiness.. I want no part of it..

"He who has been really born of the Spirit, and made a new creature in Christ Jesus, has always endeavored to "come out from the world," and live a separate life. They who have only had the name of Christian, without the reality, have always refused to "come out and be separate" from the world.

When I speak of "the world"..., I mean those people who think only, or chiefly, of this world's things, and neglect the world to come — the people who are always thinking . . .

more of earth than of Heaven,

more of time than of eternity,

more of the body than of the soul,

more of pleasing man than of pleasing God.

It is of them and their ways, habits, customs, opinions, practices, tastes, aims, spirit, and tone — that I am speaking when I speak of "the world." This is the world from which Paul tells us to "Come out — and be separate."

Now that "the world," in this sense, is an enemy to the soul, the well-known Church Catechism teaches us at its very beginning. It tells us that there are three things which a Christian is bound to renounce and give up, and three enemies which he ought to fight with and resist. These three are the flesh, the devil, and "the world." All three are terrible foes...."