tates a close walk with God. "Keeping in touch with God" is God in
our conscious being, impressing us with proper actions, and leading us in
the right way, and showing us the relationship existing between the pure
soul and the Deity. Where there is no written law of God to direct the
actions in a certain circumstance, those who experience a close connection
with God will always act the most wisely; because the "candle of the Lord"
(the conscience) is a light in them, impressing them with feelings of
right in the matter.

The conscious principle in the moral nature suffered greatly in the fall
of man, and is seriously impaired by violation of the known laws of God,
or laws of conscience. There is a beautiful harmony between truth and a
correct conscience. Obedience to the truth is always approved by an
unimpaired conscience. When a known truth is violated, a searing influence
is introduced upon the conscience, which grows with every violation, until
the conscience becomes seared as with a hot iron. Dangers of delusion lie
in the fact that after a succession of violations, the conscience becomes
so morbid that it fails to be a correct judge of action. After a time a
man can violate a plain truth without experiencing any sting of
conscience; therefore he concludes his actions are right, because he
experiences no condemnation, though they are in opposition to the truth.
There is great beauty in the thought, and gratification in the knowledge,
that by obedience to the truth we can obtain a sound moral condition,
whose conscientious principles are so acute that there is a timely warning
at every approach of error.

To possess a purged, pure, and undefiled conscience is our privilege in
the economy of grace. See Heb. 9:14; 1 Tim. 3:9; Titus 1:15. To possess an
unimpaired conscience and then so meet all our obligations to God and man
is to have a conscience void of offense. What implicit confidence we can
have in God when in a normal moral condition, and have an uncondemned
heart. Enoch walked with God and had the witness (consciousness) that he
pleased the Lord. What can bring greater happiness to the heart of man?
The man who, having an undefiled moral being has a conscience void of
offense toward God and man, experiences a satisfaction and a happiness
unsurpassed by any mortal being.

The Two Families.

The Scriptures talk of two classes of people on the earth. The inhabitants
of this globe are by the Word of God di