The carrion which professors can now feed upon is disgusting to the very thought of a real Christian. Entertainments are got up among religious people which are unworthy even of decent worldlings. Many true hearts are deeply wounded by this terrible degeneracy. Were it not for a small remnant we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah. Lord, let me never be what I cannot be forever. I have lived to see many brilliant projects lighted and left to die out in smoke. I have heard of schemes
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