Divers Faults

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A gentleman’s watch was once out of order, and it was examined. It was found that in one of them the main-spring was injured; the glass which protected the dial-plate of the other was broken; while the machinery of the third had become damp and rusty, although the parts were all there. So the lack of holiness, in some cases, arises from the lack of a desire to love God; another man has not the glass of watchfulness in his conduct; another has become rusty with backsliding from God, and the sense of guilt so clogs the wheels of his machinery, that they must be well-brushed with rebuke and correction, and oiled afresh with the divine influence before they will ever go well again.

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