And
then the further question arose as to whether I should write them down or
no; and then much more, as to whether I should set them out before my
people or no. As you will easily believe, I was immediately in a real
strait as to what I should do. I saw on the one side what would be sure
to be said by ill-natured people and people of a hasty judgment. And I
saw with much more anxiety what would be felt even when they restrained
themselves from saying it by timid and cautious and scrupulous people. I
had the full fear of all such judges before my eyes; but, somehow,
something kept this before my eyes also, that, as Evangelist met the two
pilgrims just as they were entering the fair, so, for anything I knew to
the contrary, it might be of God, that I also, in my own way, should warn
my people of the real and special danger that their souls will be in for
the next fortnight. And as I thought of it a procession of people passed
before me all bearing to this day the stains and scars they had taken on
their hearts and their lives and their characters at former general
elections.
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