' Now, if all my
people, and all this day's communicants, were only contrite enough, I
would leave them to the hurry of the approaching election with much more
comfort. But as it is, I wish to give them such an item as I am able to
caution them for the next ten days. Let them know, then, that their way
for the next fortnight lies, I will not say through a fair of jugglings
and cheatings, carried on by apes and knaves, but, to speak without
figure, their way certainly lies through what will be to many of them a
season of the greatest temptation to the very worst of all possible
sins--to anger and bitterness and ill-will; to no end of evil-thinking
and evil-speaking; to the breaking up of lifelong friendships; and to
widespread and lasting damage to the cause of Christ, which is the cause
of truth and love, meekness and a heavenly mind. Now, amid all that, as
Evangelist said to the two pilgrims, look well to your own hearts. Let
none of all these evil things enter your heart from the outside, and let
none of all these evil things come out of your hearts from the inside.
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