And only when
they had seen and submitted to that humiliating self-discovery would
their true acquaintance with Christ and their true search after Him
begin. Come, then, all my brethren, and not ministers only, waken up to
the tremendous importance of that which you have utterly neglected, it
may be ostentatiously neglected, up to this hour,--the true nature, the
true character, of your motives and your ends. Enter into yourselves. Be
not strangers and foreigners to yourselves. Let not the day of judgment
be any surprise to you. Witness against, judge, and execute yourselves,
and that especially because of your by-aims and by-ends. Take up the
touchstone of truth and lay it upon your most secret heart. Do not be
afraid to discover how double-minded and deceitful your heart is. Hunt
your heart down. Track it to its most secret lair. Put its true name,
and continue to put its true name, upon the main motive of your life.
Extort an answer by boot and by wheel, only extort an answer from the
inner man of the heart, to the torturing question as to what is his
treasure, his hope, his deepest wish, his daily dream.
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