A teacher abandons her class of boys after some particularly
disappointing outbreak, and in the utterance of her despair of
doing more for them, discloses her wounded pride which resents
such humbling. The reformer who has carried an election only to
find the city slipping back into the old ways of corruption,
becomes a common scold in his chagrin that all his labor counts
for nothing, while his adversaries laugh at his impotence.
And now and then a minister flings himself out of the pulpit,
storming at the failure of the church, because his plans are
balked and his self-denial goes unappreciated. In all this zeal
for God that cries for judgment, there is so much of human
passion eager for a personal vindication.--“Monday Club, Sermons
on the International Sunday-school Lessons for 1904.”
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