It does not matter one atom into what profession, office,
occupation, interest you track the corrupt heart of man, as sure as a
substance casts a shadow, so sure will you find your own selfish heart
hating goodness when the goodness does not serve or flatter you.
Now, though they will never be many, yet there must be some men among us,
one here and another there, who have so looked at and found out
themselves. I can well believe that some men here came up to this house
to-night trembling in their heart all the way. They felt the very
advertisement go through them like a knife: they felt that they were
summoned up hither almost by name as to judgment. For they feel every
day, though they have never told their feelings to any, that they have
this horrible heart deep-seated within them to love evil and to hate
good. They gnash their teeth at themselves as they catch themselves
rejoicing in iniquity. They feel their hearts expanding, and they know
that their faces shine, when you tell them evil tidings. They sicken and
lose heart and sit solitary when you carry to them a good report.
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