Yet thus it pleased the Lord to order it for his own glory.
"I accordingly went to church, and saw a great crowd of people collected together.

I often think of the contrary states of my mind during the former and latter part of the service.

For a while, regardless of the worship of God, I looked around me, and was anxious to attract notice myself.

My dress, like that of too many gay, vain, and silly servant girls, was much above my station, and very different from that which becomes an humble sinner, who has a modest sense of propriety and decency.

The state of my mind was visible enough from the foolish finery of my apparel.
"At length the clergyman gave out his text: 'Be ye clothed with humility.' He drew a comparison between the clothing of the body with that of the soul.