Evangelists used to set out not to comfort people but to wake people up. They used to say, “You’re asleep, and you’ll be awakened by the trump of the archangel.” That is too true of many people who are busy and happy, at peace and unconcerned, with their social enjoyments around them—their growing family, their comfortable homes. These are all proper and desirable and good things to have, but you can have them and still be morally asleep, not knowing how bad off you are.
