You know the difference between feeling and principle. Yonder
is an old sailboat out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and
when the wind blows, she travels ten miles an hour, but let the
wind lull, and she will lie there two weeks, within a hundred
yards of where the wind left her. She doesn’t go anywhere. That
is feeling. When the wind blows, off she goes.
What is principle? Yonder is a grand old ocean steamer, and
when the wind blows she spreads her sails and works her steam,
and on she goes; and when the wind lulls, the engineer pulls
his throttle wider open, and she goes at the rate of fifteen
miles an hour, whether the wind blows or not. And that is the
difference between principle and feeling.--“Famous Stories of
Sam P. Jones.”
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=Feeling the Christian Spirit=--See CONSISTENCY.