still enabling him to prosecute his nefarious work."

"It's clear enough, Brother Cross," exclaimed the widow Cooper,
now thoroughly convinced--"it's clear enough that there's something
that he wants to hide. Lord help us! but these things are terrible."

"To the weak and the wicked, Sister Cooper, they are, as you say,
terrible, and hence the need that we should have our lamps trimmed
and lighted, for the same light which brings us to the sight of
the Holy of Holies, shows us the shape of hatefuless, the black
and crouching form of Satan, with nothing to conceal his deformity.
Brother Stevens has well said that when the heart is full of sin,
the eyes are full of blindness; and so we may say that when the
heart is full of godliness, the eyes are full of seeing. You can
not blind them with devilish arts. You can not delude them as to
the true forms of Satan, let him take any shape The eye of godliness
sees clean through the mask of sin, as the light of the sun pierces
the thickest cloud, and brings day after the darkest night."

"Oh! what a blessed thing to hear you say so."

"More blessed to believe, Sister Cooper, and believing, to pray
with all your heart for this same eye of godliness. But we should
not only pray but work. Working for God is the best sort of prayer.
We must do something in his behalf: and this reminds me, Sister
Cooper, that if there is so much evil spread abroad in these books,
we should look heedfully into the character of such as fall into
the hands of the young and the unmindful of our flock."

"That is very true; that is just what I was thinking of, Brother