When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
Let the brickwork of ignorance be thrown down, and let not spiritual sunshine be shut out from the self-deceived heart. Pride, Self-love, cowardly Mistrust of God__ wisdom and goodness, are natural to our fallen nature; but the entrance of His Word into the heart is as that of the glorious beams of the day,__oy, brightness, and holiness follow the admission into its deepest recesses of the pure, life-giving light of Heaven!
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Let the brickwork of ignorance be thrown down, and let not spiritual sunshine be shut out from the self-deceived heart. Pride, Self-love, cowardly Mistrust of God__ wisdom and goodness, are natural to our fallen nature; but the entrance of His Word into the heart is as that of the glorious beams of the day,__oy, brightness, and holiness follow the admission into its deepest recesses of the pure, life-giving light of Heaven!
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