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THE INVESTIGATION OF SELF.
ll is one thing lo live an observant life
to carefully examine into all Iho minuter
nnd more secret, ,ct more important in
(luenc.es mttl forces, that arc always at
work rebuilding and constructing or tear
ing down and destroying that edifice
within, whether It he magnificent and
beautiful or lowly and full of sorrow. It
it is quilu another thing to pass unnoticed
that voire or cry for aid, or that word of
admonition, which says, "Come and watch
for yourself," while the attention is gatli.
ored completely by the crowding busy
thoroughfare. It is strange that men gen
erally adopt the later plan. They watch
the bustling and thronging world without,
themselves, with intenne interest, but take
everything for granted that refers to thuir
inwunl being. They believe Ihe world
respecting Iho things which they them
selves can only investigate, yet only be
Move themselves respecting the world. I
ilstringo then that we should see men con
demning in others exactly the things
which they do themselves? Is it strange
that men should be led and duped by olh.
ers? Is it strange that men are not their
own masters, but are wheedled nnd in
veiglcd by every appearance of an argu
ment? Is it strange that men should bo
lanned by exciti ment and passion into
conditions damning to the soul, and
blighting to natural purity V Is it not
reasonable to suppose that the world
would thus he held in darkness, given to
all sorts of infernal practices, duped to all
kinds of belief, and blasted by all manner
of vice? And do wc not find this to be
tlie real condition of things? For what
man lias candidly weighed the questions:
'Vhnt am I? where am I? Who has an
swered the questions: What was I? where
was I ? Then who can'answer, belter than
each one for himself, the questions: "What
will 1 be? where will I be? If these
questions have in any way been replied to
the replies have, without further inquiry,
been adopted by the masses And so, not
ever) man has an answer which will bear
examination. And the more each oiio in.
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