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156 godly and godless folks are smitten if they dwell upon that region."

This is an answer, also, to the question, "Why are good people sick?" Dr. Holcombe says "the evil elements in so-called good people are only suppressed, not eradicated, and are ready to burst into activity as soon as the conditions are supplied;" and he names as one of the conditions, "false thinking." It is true even that with regenerating people, who look to the Lord alone and seek to shun evils as sins in their daily life, the great mass of their hereditary evils with their fears, lusts and cravings, hide behind their ignorances and fallacies and can only be dislodged by the truth, seen and asserted in the Lord's name. Few have the requisite knowledge of truth concerning themselves, and their relations to the Lord, and to the hells, and few could stand the test of fidelity to the naked truth upon these subjects, which could alone uncover and subdue the varieties of hereditary evil which lurk under our common notions and practices. Latent there, or in unjudged activity, each lust and craving "married to its own proper stupidity and imprudence, and embodied in life-long habits," these constitute a body of weakness,