It is dreadful to think that a vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily. I venture to say that the bulk of Christians spend more time in reading the newspaper than they do in reading the Word of God. It will be an awful thing to be mere empty barrels, and never know it till death deals a blow with his rod of iron and we answer to it with hollow sounds of despair. Those who are non-workers lose much by not keeping pace with those who are running
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