To be near unto God - pagina 521

Indeed, there are bosom-sins, and fault, when the heart is so little known to itself, that no confession can be made before God of the sin that most assaults and conquers self. And it cannot fail but that everyone who takes his private life seriously is more parsurrounding. it

is

no minor

ticularly on his guard against certain definite sins, and in his thoughts and prayers is more engaged with these, than with other sins. His stniggle directs itself most against that evil which overcame and injured him most. And in memory thereof the shame and sorrow because of defeat in the struggle against this particular sin, will intrude themselves most strongly upon him. It was this sin which inflicted the most cruel wound, and left

behind the blackest mark. But do not fail to observe the danger which this implies. For is it not heart-breaking to see the

number

of lesser sins

in

their

character to

which even earnest Christians are stone blind? And the burden of this guilt rests for no small

upon

this one-sided striving against a pargreat sin. Where a greater danger threatens, all sorts of lesser dangers that might harm are of themselves almost lost from sight. When a loved one lies at the point of death, no one inquires after the concerns of cellar and kitchen. When a rynaway horse races through the streets, no one is on the lookout for muddy places, but makes himself scarce. When fire breaks out in the house, no one attends to the draught from an opei window. In saving a man from drowning, no one is concerned about the incidental tearing of

part

ticular,

clothes.

When war

of other quarrels,

breaks out, of

itself all sorts

however important, are 517

silenced.

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