...apply these rules to ourselves, we find so often in our lives the apostle's words coming true, " The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not that I do." " My resolutions are writ in water. I have so many purposes to be a better man, more gentle, more pure,...

...the reasonable soul the plaintive confession, " When I would do good, evil is present with me ;" "The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not that I do ;" " O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Can you say, "The...

...trodden in all ages? It is what this dear man of God went through; and he tells us for onr comfort; " The good that I would, I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." The child of God does not glory in it. He does not say these things in an indifferent manner. It is...

..."Oh, wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Said the apostle, "The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not that I do. I feel another law in my members; warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity...

...pure impulse, as they also fail to act when these are present. " The good that I would," Bays Paul, "I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." (6.) The faculties employed, the methods adopted, and the object in view, are, respectively, different....

...! " the other exclaims, " When I would do good, evil is present with me, and the good I would, that I do not, and the evil that I would not that I do. О ! wretched man that I am." If the petty interests of the individual always went II hand in hand...

...and when the sun sinks down we say : " I would have done good, but evil was present with me." " The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not that I do " is the experience of every man. What then ? If a man is travelling and slips and falls, does he sit...

...authority. The words of St. Paul here find an echo from every man's heart : " The good that I would, that I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." Who of us has not felt it a thousand times ? for I speak of what we know and feel within. Who, then,...

...was not II INFLUENCE OF IDEALS 9 always on a par with his character, for he tells us that "the good I would, I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do." He had not yet attained, but he followed on if that he might attain. Judged by our deeds, what miserable...

...describes his conflict with himself, as though it were a conflict between two men within him, "The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do," he was suddenly interrupted in the midst of his discourse by the king exclaiming, "I know those two...