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 tians, if  to-day  I  urge  that  you  join  in  spirit  their ranks and  help  to  swell  their  woeful  chorus. For by sin  you  have,  like  the  Jews,  crucified  the  Saviour;  you have, like  them,  incurred  the  wrath  of  God. God's kingdom within  you  has  been  overthrown. In your Father's house  there  are  indeed  many  mansions,  but those designed  for  you  have  been  razed  to  the ground. That temple  of  God,  your  soul,  has  been so unfitted  for  the  indwelling  of  the  Spirit,  that  you have lost  at  once  God's  temple  and  the  temple's  God. In sin  and  its  woeful  results  you  have  out-Jewed  the Jews; endeavor  now  to  outdo  them  in  repentance. But rend  not  your  garments;  rather  rend  your  hearts, grieving in  spirit  and  in  truth. The Jewish  day  of wailing,  in  modern  times  at  least,  is  but  the  exhibition of  the  trappings  and  the  suits  of  woe,  but  you should have  within  you  that  which  passeth  show,  a sin-consuming  remorse  of  soul,  a  fiery  baptism  of  penance unto  the  remission  of  your  sins. Let the motives to  repentance  I  suggest  be  as  fagots  on  that fire, and  a  breath  to  fan  them  into  flame, that  the  dross of sin  in  your  souls  may  be  purged  and  burned  away.

Brethren, to  the  healthful  man  few  things  are harder to  realize  than  the  nearness  of  death. God made you  to  walk  upright,  your  eyes  removed  as  far as possible  from  the  ground,  lest  being  reminded  too frequently of  your  earthiness,  you  should  find  life  unendurable. But this,  like  others  of  God's  mercies, you, reckless  sinner,  abuse  to  your  own  destruction. Yet think  a  moment  and  you  can,  you  must  acknowledge your  danger  from  death's  nearness. God in