little sins

by GUTHRIE--

Be fearful of little sins. Take alarm at even an evil thought, wish, or desire.

These are the germs of sin -
the floating seeds which drop into the heart,
and, finding in our natural corruption a fat and favorable soil,
spring up into actual transgressions.

These, like the rattle of the snake and the hiss of theserpent,
reveal the presence and nearness of danger.

The experience of all holy men proves
that sin is most easily crushed in the bud,
and that it is safer to flee from temptation
than to fight it.

Lord let me vigilant.