strations, on the feelings, if you know how to observe, detect,
characterise, and confess them,--the feelings, I say, that will rise in
your heart to-morrow morning when you read what is good news to other
men, even to good men, and to the families and family interests of good
men. It does not matter one atom into what profession, office,
occupation, interest you track the corrupt heart of man, as sure as a
substance casts a shadow, so sure will you find your own selfish heart
hating goodness when the goodness does not serve or flatter you.

Now, though they will never be many, yet there must be some men among us,
one here and another there, who have so looked at and found out
themselves. I can well believe that some men here came up to this house
to-night trembling in their heart all the way. They felt the very
advertisement go through them like a knife: they felt that they were
summoned up hither almost by name as to judgment. For they feel every
day, though they have never told their feelings to any, that they have
this horrible heart deep-seated within them to love evil and to hate
good. They gnash their teeth at themselves as they catch themselves
rejoicing in iniquity. They feel their hearts expanding, and they know
that their faces shine, when you tell them evil tidings. They sicken and
lose heart and sit solitary when you carry to them a good report. They
feel as John Bunyan felt, that no one but the devil can equal them in
pollution of heart. And their wonder sometimes is that the Searcher of
Hearts does not drive them down where devils dwell and hate God and man
and one another. They look around them when the penitential psalm is
being sung, and they smile bitterly to themselves. O people of God, they
say, you do not know what you are saying. Leave that psalm to me. I can
sing it. I can tell to God what He knows about sin, and about sin in the
heart. Stand away back from me, that man says, for I am a leper. The
chief of sinners is beside you. A whited sepulchre stands open beside
you.--Stop now, O hating and hateful man, and let me speak for a single
moment before we separate. Before you say any more about yourself, and
before you leave the house of God, lift up your broken heart and with all
your might bless God that He has opened your eyes and taught you how to
look at yourself and how to hate yourself. There are hundreds of honest
Christian men and women in this house at this moment to whom