220 ON HIGH PROFESSION ence ?" These interrogations are made without regard to that humility which may make her afraid to appear better than she is, and to that modesty which restrains a loud expression of her feelings. She does not, perhaps, even know the meaning of the term, in their acceptance of it. Do we then ridicule experimental religion? Do we think lightly of that interior power of Divine grace upon the heart, which is one of the strongest evidences of the truth of Christianity ? God forbid! But surely we may dis- approve the treating it with flippancy and unhallowed familiarity ; we may disapprove of their discussing it with as little reserve and seriousness, as if they were speaking of the state of the weather, or of the hour of the day ; we may object to certain equivocal feelings being made the sole criterion of religion feelings to which those who have them not may pretend,- which those who have them may fear
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