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CHAPTER IV
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Our lives cannot be judged by our deeds; they must be judged by our desires or rather by our moral attitude.

It is not what we do so much as what we try to do that counts in the formation of character.

All fall short, all fail, but in the end those who seek to climb out of the pit, those who strive, however vainly, to fashion failure to success, are, by comparison, the righteous, while those who are content to wallow in our native mire and to glut themselves with the daily bread of vice, are the unrighteous.

To turn our backs thereon wilfully and without cause, is the real unforgiveable sin against the Spirit.

At least that is the best definition of the problem at which I in my simplicity can arrive.
Such thoughts have often occurred to me in considering the character of Dr.Rodd and some others whom I have known; indeed the germ of them arose in my mind which, being wearied at the time and therefore somewhat vacant, was perhaps the more open to external impressions, as I looked upon the face of this stranger on the stoep.


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