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evidence,  and  that  is  the  natural  heart.  Let  me  state
it  thus  ;  The  unregenerate  soul  itself  bears  a  conscious-
ness of  the  danger  of  committing  this  sin.  I  venture
there  is  not  an  unconverted  person  in  this  room  who
has  seen  a  day,  since  you  came  to  years  of  accounta-
bility, when,  in  one  form  or  another,  you  did  not
have  some  impression  that  you  were  going  in  the
"  wrong  way ;  and  there  was  danger  that  you  might
go  too  far.  I  venture  you  never  followed  the  hearse
to  the  cemetery  ;  you  never  heard  a  bell  toll  for  the
dead ;  you  never  had  any  thing  make  an  impression
on  your  heart — and  there  is  something,  all  the  time,
concerning  eternity — but  that,  if  you  were  an  un-
saved person,  there  was  something  in  your  breast
that  seemed  to  give  you  an  impression  that  there  was
danger  that  you  might  be  doing  wrong  and  going  too
far.  Now,  I  know  where  some  of  you  will  meet  me.
You  will  sa}r,  "I  am  not  afraid  to  die:  I  am  not
afraid  to  meet  God."  Who  said  you  were  ?  Many
a  man  as  good  as  you  has  often  told  that  old  story,
"  not  afraid  to  die."  Some  years  ago,  in  a  town  in
New  York,  a  minister  said  to  me,  "  Do  you  see  that
large  white  mansion  yonder?"  "Yes,  sir."  Mr.
