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ourselves in all our actions. And this we
can never do apart from the potency and
life of a religious principle.”

“But what do you mean by a religious
principle ?”

“J mean a principle of pure love to the
Lord, united with an unselfish love to our
neighbour, flowing out in a desire to do him
good.” ;

“But no man can have these. It is im-
possible for any one to feel the unselfish _
love of which you speak.”

“Of course it is, naturally—for man is
born into hereditary evils. But if he truly
desires to rise out of these evils into a higher
and better state, the Lord will be active in
his efforts—and in just so far as he truly
shuns evils as sins against him, looking to
him all the while for assistance, will he re-
move those evils from their central position
in his mind, and then the opposite good of
those evils will flow in to take their place,
(for spiritually, as well as naturally, there
can be no vacuum,) and he will be a new