Excerpt from Daily Steps Towards Heaven, or Practical Thoughts on the Gospel History, and Especially on the Life and Teaching of Our Lord Jesus Christ: For Every Day in the Year, According to the Christian Seasons

If the thoughts appear in some instances too severe and discouraging, it may be truly urged, that while meditation on the love of God in Christ to sinners is the true antidote to formality, so is the habit of practical self - inquiry, in some form, what ever it be called, an essential safeguard against a vague and mere general profession Of religion. But still more safely it may be urged that the practical part of the Christian life, so especially needful to all in secular callings, is the daily struggle to conform to the will of God, to compare ourselves with His standard, to know and confess our guilt, and to set ourselves steadily on the work of amendment. It is the office