Charles Hodge, professor of Princeton Theology until 1840. Students saw him shed tears in his classes when he talked of the love of Christ. A student once said of Hodge who was announcing a hymn in the Oratory: "As he read he came to the lines: 'That blood can make the foulest clean, that blood availed for me.' But Hodge could not read them, try as he would. 'That blood availed,'--he could not get beyond that. That strong man bowed before the storm of emotion, and, dropping into his chair, he buried his face in his hands."
Brothers, I am not suggesting you don't love Jesus enough if you don't cry while reading or singing hymns, but to be so overwhelmed by the love of our precious savior like this...I will just say that I pray that I come to a relationship with Jesus that causes me to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of His love when I think about that love...EVERY TIME I think about His love.
The above quote is a quote from a book In Pursuit of Purity by David O. Beale. If you've never read about Fundamentalism, you should check it out.
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