“Note again—I still speak to those who are messengers of God to men's souls—when you go to lost souls, you must, as these angels did, let them plainly see their condition and their danger. ‘Up,’ they said, ‘for God will destroy this place.’

If you really long to save men's souls, you must tell them a great deal of disagreeable Truths of God. The preaching of the wrath of God has come to be sneered at nowadays, and even good people are half ashamed of it. A mushy sentimentality about love and goodness has hushed, in a great measure, plain Gospel expostulations and warnings.

But, my Brothers, if we expect souls to be saved we must declare unflinchingly, with all affectionate fidelity, the terrors of the Lord.”

- CH Spurgeon, “Lingerers Hastened”.