Press right home to your conscience the question, “What do I have of the mind of Christ?” Does my heart answer, does my disposition correspond, to the holy, meek, humble, forgiving, benevolent, patient, self-denying mind of Christ? Do men who know the beauty and glory of the Original, as it is delineated on the page of the gospel, when they see me, say, “There is the image of Christ!” Or do they look skeptically on, and after standing in silence for some time, profess they can see little or no resemblance? Oh, be satisfied with nothing short of a copy of Christ’s heart into yours!
John Angell James

Quintus Florens Tertullian

Quintus Florens Tertullian

Quintus Florens Tertullian
160-220
North African defender of the faith. Tertullian was born of heathen parents in Carthage, Africa. He studied law and lived an exceedingly sinful life until he received the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 30. He became an intense, hardhitting defender of the fundamentals of the Christian faith against the traditions of Romanism. He joined the Montanists, a group of premillennial, Bible-believing Christians, and spent the rest of his life writing and preaching primitive Christianity as opposed to Romanism with its ecclesiastical traditions and ceremonies contrary to the Scriptures.

ARTIST’S NOTE: The cool colors designate the objective, scholarly approach of the man. Tertullian is shown with a manuscript scroll of the Holy Scriptures.

Ruckman ’66