And the same enemy of mankind will clip all the terror of the Lord out of your heart to-night again, if he can.

And he will do it in this way, if he can.

He will have some one at the church door ready and waiting for you.
As soon as the blessing is pronounced, some one will take you by the arm and will entertain you with the talk you love, or that you once loved, till you will be ashamed to confess that there is any terror or turning to God in your heart.

No! Thou shalt not surely die, says the serpent still.

Why, hast thou not trampled Sabbaths and sermons past counting under thy feet?
What commandment, laid on body or soul, hast thou not broken, and thou art still adding drunkenness to thirst, and God doth not know! 'The woman said unto the serpent, We may not eat of it, neither may we touch it, lest we die.