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title: 'S.S. Laws: Assert Yourselves as Christians'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-09-02
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-s-s-laws-assert-yourselves-as-christians
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# S.S. Laws: Assert Yourselves as Christians

“I would impress upon your minds, and stamp on your social lives, this governing idea: *Be not chameleons in your social intercourse*, taking on the shades of worldly mindedness, of indifference to religion, or, perhaps, the positive ungodliness of those about you; but be manly Christians, with such prepotency of Christian character that, whatever society you enter, it shall fully reflect your religious sentiments and tastes, instead of impressing on you its religionless tone. If a simple minded godliness be your temper, it will be as a bouquet of sweet roses and load the atmosphere wherever you go with the delights of its fragrance. There was no pharisaical severity, nor lordly pompousness, but ease and loving gentleness in all the Saviour’s life with us; and in no instance did he compromise himself, or fail to impress his character on all about him instead of chameleon-like reflecting theirs. Assert yourselves as Christians, which means to assert Christ always and everywhere.” — [**S.S. Laws**](/authors/samuel-spahr-laws), *Seminary Students’ Temptations* (1896)