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So they are; and so they were that day with our terrified pilgrim. He
made a venture at the supreme moment of his danger, and things that were
quite out of all hope but an hour before were then compassed and ever
after possessed by him. Make the same venture, then, yourselves
to-night. Naught venture, naught have. Your lost soul is not much to
venture, but it is all that Christ at this moment asks of you--that you
leave your lost soul in His hand, and then go straight on from this
moment in the middle of the path: the path, that is, as your case may be,
of purity, humility, submission, resignation, and self-denial. Keep your
mind and your heart, your eyes and your feet, in the very middle of that
path, and you shall have compassed the House Beautiful before you know.
The lions shall soon be behind you, and the grave and graceful damsels of
the House--Discretion and Prudence and Piety and Charity--shall all be
waiting upon you.
PRUDENCE {1}
'Let a man examine himself.'--Paul.
Let a man examine himself, says the apostle to the Corinthians, and so
let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
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