What is true of the mass is first true of the atom; what is
true of the ocean is first true of the drop. It is easy to see
the law of retribution when it is exemplified in the broad
effects of national calamity, but not so easy to apprehend its
action in the individual fortune. We stand in awe over the
shattered greatness and buried splendor of Egypt, Babylon,
Judea, Phoenicia, Greece; but the ruin that sin works in the
individual destiny is just as certain, and infinitely more
awful. If we could once see a soul in ruins, we should never
speak again of Nineveh, Memphis, Jerusalem, Tyre, Athens.
“Deceive not yourselves.” (Text.)--W. L. WATKINSON,
“The Transfigured Sackcloth.”
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