---
title: 'The Perils of Our Virtues'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Elliott Speer'
date: 1904-03-25
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Personal Piety'
scriptures:
- 'Philippians 2'
- 'Matthew 19'
- 'James 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/speer-1904-the-perils-of-our-virtues
---

# The Perils of Our Virtues

Essay warns that Christian virtues and active ministry bring subtler perils—absorption in work, loss of simplicity, and hypocrisy—and urges humility, balance, and nearness to Christ.

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