As the finger feels the smart when it touches the flame that
stands airily quivering in its golden invitation, so the will
which first touches a lie or a lust is conscious of a pang. Not
outward in the Word, but inward in its life, is this warning
against vice. When afterward it reads and meditates the Word,
it finds symbols interpreted, precepts enforced, admonitions
illumined, by this its prior inward experience.--RICHARD S.
STORRS.
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=Experience as Proof=--See TESTS, PERSONAL.