We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves"—with the meekness and gentleness of Christ.
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“That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.”
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