Concerning the consciousness of evil in the past of our lives and the tendency to wrong doing in our nature, the Bible is very clear, and it is most admirably explicit as to God's way of removing this barrier to our future progress. In Holy Scripture we see a most wise and gracious method for the putting

away of guilt, without injury to the divine justice. The atonement offered by the Lord Jesus, who is the essence of the revelation of God, is an eminently satisfactory solution of the soul's sternest problem. Our feeling is that God, the universal Ruler, must do right, and must not, even for mercy's sake, relax the rule that evil done must bring evil as its consequence.

It is very likely that neither ministers nor their sermons are perfect—the best garden may have a few weeds in it, the cleanest corn may have some chaff—but cavilers carp at anything or nothing, and find fault for the sake of showing off their deep knowledge.

Sooner than let their tongues have a holiday, they would complain that the grass is not a nice shade of blue, and declare that the sky would have been more beautiful if it had been whitewashed.