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Rh tacitly to acknowledge the sentence:—"Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; to be the just demerit of his consummate folly. Thus will it be. in the last great day with all who shall be found destitute of heavenly wisdom. When all the golden opportunities they suffered to pass away unimproved; the many glorious privileges neglected; the repeated calls and entreaties of God's providence, word and Spirit that have been slighted; when all these are brought to their remembrance; while the Judge is pronouncing the sentence, "Depart ye cursed" they will be constrained in inexpressible agony to say, Amen, to their own condemnation. And what a bitter ingredient will this be in that cup of indignation, which shall be their portion forever and ever—self-condemnation—forever exclaiming, I have destroyed myself! See the importance then, my hearers,