Give no glory to this rubbish
By Charles Spurgeon

Alas, it makes a Christian's blood boil to see glory given to a pack of scamps who call themselves priests. Does it not make a man feel, when you see pictures of his holiness and the cardinals and so on, scattering their benedictions at the Vatican, while admiring crowds fall down and worship them, that it were infinitely better to bow to the devil himself?

We give glory unto God, but not a particle of glory to anything in the shape of a man. Have I not stood and seen the crowds by hundreds, fall down and worship images and dressed-up dolls? I have seen them worship bones and old teeth. I have seen them worship a skeleton, dressed out in modern costumes said to be the skeleton of a saint. I have marveled to see people so infatuated as to think that such idolatry was pleasing to the Most High God.

We brethren, the people of God who know Jesus, can give no glory to this rubbish, but turn away from it with horror. Our glory must be given to Jesus, and to Jesus alone. Jesus and Jesus alone must be the grand object of the Christian. The promotion of his glory must be that for which he is willing to live, and for which, if needs be, he would be prepared to die.

O down, down, down with everything else, but up, up, up with the cross of Jesus! Down with your infant baptisms, and your masses, and your sacraments! Down with your priestcraft, and your rituals, and your liturgies! Down with your fine music, and your pomp, and your robes, and your garments, and all your ceremonials! but up, up, up, with the doctrine of the sin-atoning cross and the expiring Savior.