Has our religion been costly to us? Have we given up anything? These
converts gave up their money-making sins publicly; and their public and
costly repentance was made a great blessing. We wish every Christian who
is engaged in any business that has made money for him at the expense of
another's morals, would see it his duty to make a bonfire of it! We have
no doubt there are numbers of Christians whose consciences now and then
give them a goutlike twinge. We do not doubt their religion because they
do not obey their consciences; but we do say the word of God cannot grow
mightily, it is stunted, and in consequence they are religious dwarfs,
when they might have been giants in righteousness and holy influence.