boldly bid thy tempter “depart from thee.”1 Awful is the thought—that there is not a sin, that the highest saint of God may not commit, if trusting in himself. “Thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear.” 17. (Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird). 18. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.2 A striking picture of the infatuation