_Teaching compared to Seed_.
"But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit; some an hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-fold." (Matt xiii.

8.) Seneca (Letter 38): "_Words must be sown like seed; which, although it be small, when it hath found a suitable ground, unfolds its strength, and from very small size is expanded into the largest increase.

Reason does the same....

The things spoken are few; but if the mind have received them well, they gain strength and grow_." 7.

_All Men are Sinners_.
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1 John i.