You dream of perfection, but you are a mass of wants and infirmities and conceits, and if it were not for the infinite mercy of God, who deals tenderly with you, you would soon have most painfully to know it to your own dishonor and to the grief of your brethren round about you. A righteous sentence shall go forth from his mouth who knows not how to flatter the great. There was a time when Christian people thought it idle to send missionaries to the heathen, but that time only survives in regretful
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