A Word to the Students (Vol. 2)

par Zacharias T. Fomum

Books addressed to students usually flatter them or frighten them. This one does neither: it takes them seriously. It begins, disarmingly, with a testimony — hard work, scholarships, distinctions, a doctorate, a higher doctorate — told not as boasting but as evidence: the author has stood where the ambitious student stands, and won. That is precisely why his warnings cannot be dismissed as the envy of the unsuccessful. When a man of that record writes “Sin is a killer — don’t commit it!”, the student reader must reckon with the possibility that holiness and excellence are allies, not rivals. The warnings that follow — against sexual immorality, against hypocrisy, against the self-life — are administered without anaesthetic, and always with the same remedy: radical repentance and a life surrendered to the Lord Jesus. The closing chapters make the stakes plain: to gain the whole world of certificates and lose one’s soul is the tragedy of tragedies. Put this book in the hands of every student you love. It will cost them their excuses; it may save them everything else.

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