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The Sermon on the Mount
"As for 'caring for' the Sermon on the Mount, if 'caring for' means 'liking' or 'enjoying,' I suppose no one 'cares for' it. Who can like being knocked flat on his face by a sledge-hammer? I can hardly imagine a more dangerous position than a man who can read that passage with tranquil pleasure. This is indeed to be 'at ease in Zion.' Such a man is not yet ripe for the Bible; he had better start by learning sense from Islam: 'The heaven and the earth and all between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?'"
Rejoinder to Dr. Pittenger
