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TEMPTATION.
have done, and left undone many things which we ought to have done, and there is naturally no good in us. We have wicked and deceitful hearts, which we cannot trust, and every one of us like sheep have gone astray, are lost, and must perish, unless help is sent to bring us back into the paths of holiness and truth. This I will explain more fully by the following story :- A little child wandered from its moth- er's cottage on the prairie, in search of flowers. Pleased with the pursuit, and absorbed in new pleasures, it was nearly night before she thought of returning, and
