Baoksliding, Sadness of
Illustration★★★It is a miserable thing to be a backslider. Of all unhappy things that can befall a man, I suppose ‘tis the worst. A stranded ship, a brokenvinged eagle, a garden overrun with weeds, a aarp without strings, a church in ruins—all these are sad sights, but a backslider is a sadder sight still.
— Ryle
Ryle.
The point
A short, vivid list of images — a stranded ship, a broken-winged eagle, a weed-choked garden — builds to the claim that a backslider is the saddest sight of all.
To tell aloud
under a minute · 55 words
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