It cannot be inculcated.
"To educate is to bring forth, not to put in.

To put in is death; to flow out is life." Lest the reader may have got an impression, from any of the extracts already given, that Isaac Hecker was puffed up by the pride of his own innocence, we transcribe what follows.

It shows that he did not fall under the Apostle's condemnation: "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." It was written on the last Sunday of September, and, after this long outpouring of confession, longing, and weakness, the diary was not again resumed for nearly a month.

The desire expressed in its second paragraph for the kind of spiritual refreshment which in after years he so often enjoyed under the name of a "retreat," seems noteworthy.
"September 24, 1843 .-- The human heart is wicked above all things.

The enemy of man is subtle and watchful beyond conception.