[T]he object of Christianity is not to educate men for their secular callings, or even to train them in the politer arts or the more elegant professions, or to enable them to enjoy the beauties of nature or the charms of poetry.

Jesus Christ came not into the world for any of these things, but He came to seek and to save that which was lost, and on the same errand has He sent His Church, and she is a traitor to the Master Who sent her if she is beguiled by the beauties of taste and art to forget that to preach Christ and Him crucified is the only object for which she exists among the sons of men. The business of the Church is salvation.

Charles Spurgeon