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The power of truth can scarcely be overestimated, and the mind that earnestly seeks it becomes noble in its noble quest If this can be said of truth in the abstract, and in its hurandest cul our profoundest fear and deepest love One ious fored thereby One may be perfectly saturated with ecclesiasticism, and still continue a small-natured man But theteacher, as did the fishere and noble, brave and patient

Egbert Haldane has been sketched as an ordinary youth There are thousands like him who have been warped and marred by early influences, butto whatever form of evil proved attractive The majority are not so unwary or so unfortunate as he was; but multitudes, for whom society has comparatively little criticism, are more vitiated at heart, more cold-blooded and deliberate in their evil One may form a base character, but maintain an outward respectability; but let him not be very complacent over the decorous and conventional veneer which ines that he can corrupt his own soul and hts, o forward very far in God's universe without hly mistaken

The sin of another man finds him out in swift sequence upon its committal, and such had been Haldane's experience He had been taught promptly the nature of the harvest which evil produces inevitably

The terrible consequences of sin prevent and deter froreat reformatory power it would see vices, and recognize the fact; but so far fro upward into virtue, even after vice (save in the intent of the heart) has ceased to be possible, there seeimpetus doard

It would appear that, in order to save the sinful, a strong, and yet gentle and loving, hand rip of pain, law--human and divine--with its severe penalties, and conscience re-echoing its thunders, all lead too often to despondency, recklessness, and despair It would be difficult to is for its votaries, even in this world; and in spite of all human philosophies, and huuilty soul tres, no fears, no fate can so appall as to turn the soul fro it More potent than commands, threats, and their dire fulfilment, is love, which wins and entreats back to virtue the man whom even Omnipotence could not drive back