large class) who give themselves so exclusively to the activities of what is called Christian and benevolent work that they neglect to realize the inwardness of true religion in their own experience, or to develop those interior elements of spiritual life without which they are “as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” There are still others who seem to have the idea that morality will produce religion in their hearts; and by entering upon the practice of moral duties they indulge the expectation