Sinful they are as a whole. Sinning, it may be, without law, but
perishing without law. For the wages of sin are death, and can be
nothing else. But may not Christ have His elect among them? May not His
Spirit be working in some of them? May He not have His sheep among them,
who hear His voice though they know not that it is His voice? They hear
a voice within their hearts whispering to them, "Be loving, be merciful,
be humane, in one word be just, and do to others as you would they should
do to you." And whose voice can that be but the voice of Christ, and the
Spirit of God? Those loving instincts come not from the fleshly fallen
nature, or natural man. That says to us, "Be selfish; do not be loving.
Do to others not what you would they should do to you, but do to others
whatever is pleasant and profitable to yourselves." And alas! the
heathen, and too many who call themselves Christians, listen to that
carnal voice, and live the life of selfishness and pleasure, of anger and
revenge, of tyranny and cruelty--the end of which is death.
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