"
My heart was greatly cheered by this remark; and I sighed very
deeply, and hung my head to one side. The worthy father
observed me, and inquired the cause, when I answered as follows:
"How dreadful the thought, that I have been going daily in
company and fellowship with one whose name is written on the
red-letter side of the book of life; whose body and soul have
been, from all eternity, consigned over to everlasting destruction,
and to whom the blood of the atonement can never, never reach!
Father, this is an awful thing, and beyond my comprehension."
"While we are in the world, we must mix with the inhabitants
thereof," said he; "and the stains which adhere to us by reason of
this mixture, which is unavoidable, shall all be washed away. It is
our duty, however, to shun the society of wicked men as much as
possible, lest we partake of their sins, and become sharers with
them in punishment. John, however, is morally a good man, and
may yet get a cast of grace."
"I always thought him a good man till to-day," said I, "when he
threw out some reflections on your character, so horrible that I
quake to think of the wickedness and malevolence of his heart.
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