_Life Here and Hereafter_, Canon MACCOLL. "There is a physical demonstration of sin as well as a religious; and no sin can come in among the delicate faculties of the mind, or among the coarser fibres of the body, without leaving a stain, either as a positive injury to the life, or, what is equally fatal, as a predisposition to commit the same sin again. This predisposition is always one of the most real and appalling accompaniments of the stain of sin. There is scarcely such a thing as an isolated sin in a man's life. Most sins can be accounted for by what has gone before. Every sin, so to speak, has its own pedigree, and is the result of the accumulated force, which means the accumulated stain of many a preparatory sin." _The Ideal Life_, HENRY DRUMMOND. Temptation MAY 23 "Two things a genuine Christian never does. He never makes light of any known sin, and he never admits it to be invincible." Canon LIDDON. "We always meet the temptation which is to expose us when we least expect it." _The Ideal Life_, HENRY DRUMMOND. "It is of the essence of temptation that it should come on us unawares." _Pastor Pastorum_, HENRY LATHAM. "If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations." EMERSON. Sin MAY 24 "We judge of sins, as we judge of most things, by their outward form. We arrange the vices of our neighbours according to a scale which society has tacitly adopted, placing the more gross and public at the foot, the slightly less gross higher up, and then by some strange process the scale becomes obliterated. Finally it vanishes into space, leaving lengths of itself unexplored, its sins unnamed, unheeded, and unshunned. But we have no balance to weigh sins. Coarser and finer are but words of our own. The chances are, if anything, that the finer are the lower. The very fact that the world sees the coarser sins so well is against the belief that they are the worst. The subtle and unseen sin, that sin in the part of the nature most near to the spiritual, ought to be more degrading than any other. Yet for many of the finer forms of sin society has yet no brand." _The Ideal Life_, HENRY DRUMMOND. "Tried by final tests, and reduced to its essential elements, sin is the preference of self to God, and the assertion of the human will against the Will of God. With Jesus, from first to last, sin is selfishness." _The Mind of the Master_, Dr. JOHN WATSON. Sin MAY 25-26