He thought it well that existing Institutions should not be disturbed.

"Something worse might be established instead." His turn of mind, in short, was not Evangelical.
"Are the Hindoos in earnest, mother ?" and I thrust the picture before her.

She warned me off.
"Do you think, Mr.Park, that Cassandra can understand the law of transgression ?" An acute perception that it was in my power to escape a moral penalty, by willful ignorance, was revealed to me, that I could continue the privilege of sinning with impunity.

His answer was complicated, and he quoted several passages from the Scriptures.

Presently he began to sing, and I grew lonesome; the life within me seemed a black cave.
"_Our nature's totally depraved-- The heart a sink of sin; Without a change we can't be saved, Ye must be born again_." Temperance opened the door.