Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: One sin might keep a man out of heaven; but the multitudes of our iniquities, the blackness, the aggravation, the repetition of our offenses made the case hopeless to all human power of wisdom. Let us never contribute of our substance to the Master’s cause with a grudging hand, as though a tax-gatherer were wringing from us what we conld ill afford. We have seen those who dared not enter the devil’s house linger long and lovingly around the door. The old woman in the fable, who could find no wine in the jar, yet loved to smell at it. Thoughts are the eggs of words and actions, and within the thoughts lie compacted and condensed all the villainy of actual transgressions. If you can say that you have served God and man without fault throughout all your days, you can say much more than I would venture to do. The Scripture also is dead against you when it says, “ There is none righteous; no, not one. The less we have of self the more room there is for His divine grace. Many a man bears in his bones the sins of his youth. Around us are many who already wish that they had never been born, because of the condition into which their wantonness has brought them. If all the gathered-out company were to pray together, what a sound of supplication would go up by reason of the multitude of men. He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. We look upon those as royal who can risk their lives for their fellow-men, to win them liberty or to teach them truth. A loose stone here, and a fallen tie there, and a rotting timber in a third place, will soon bring on a total ruin to a tenement, but the hand of diligence maintains the fabric. Thus must we watch our spiritual house, lest we fall by little and little. You have not taken God to be your God if you canno…