If You Think That You Can Sin,

We Hear In These Days A Great Deal Respecting Rights--the Rights Of Private Judgment, The Rights Of Labor, The Rights Of Property, And The Rights Of Man. Rights Are Grand Things, Divine Things In This World Of God's; But The Way In Which We Expound These Rights, Alas! Seems To Me To Be The Very Incarnation Of Selfishness. I Can See Nothing Very Noble In A Man Who Is Forever Going About Calling For His Own Rights. Alas! Alas! For The Man Who Feels Nothing More Grand In This Wondrous, Divine World Than His Own Rights.

False Notions Of Liberty Are Strangely Common. People Talk Of It As If It Meant The Liberty Of Doing Whatever One Likes - Whereas The Only Liberty That A Man, Worthy Of The Name Of Man, Ought To Ask For, Is, To Have All Restrictions, Inward And Outward, Removed That Prevent His Doing What He Ought.

Earth Has Not A Spectacle More Glorious Or More Fair To Show Than This Love Tolerating Intolerance; Charity Covering, As With A Vail, Even The Sin Of The Lack Of Charity.

The Mistake We Make Is To Look For A Source Of Comfort In Ourselves: Self-contemplation, Instead Of Gazing Upon God. In Other Words, We Look For Comfort Precisely Where Comfort Never Can Be.

Read A Work On The "evidences Of Christianity," And It May Become Highly Probable That Christianity, Etc., Are True. This Is An Opinion. Feel God. Do His Will, Till The Absolute Imperative Within You Speaks As With A Living Voice, "thou Shalt, And Thou Shalt Not;" And Then You Do Not Think, You Know That There Is A God.