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Illustrate by the undergrowth in a great forest. It must be cut; down before anything hopeful can be done with the soil There is a national moral undergrowth: a brutal, vile, wretched population of a most repulsive and dangerous character. Ignorance, sensuality, violence, and irreligion, fostered and perpetuated by drunkenness, forms a dismal, moral undergrowth, where human tigers watch for prey, where foul habits breed disease, where women lose all beauty and joy, and where children — the offspring of immoral parents-are like "a nest of unclean birds." What is to be done with this deadly moral undergrowth? Soft measures, easy-going, self-indulgent Christianity are of no use here.

1. Let us take increased care that good and precious seed shall be sown in the hearts of the young. This is of paramount and urgent importance. Take care of the little ones.

2. Seek to reach the people who never enter places of worship.

3. Endeavour to abate incentives to drunkenness.

4. Consecrate yourselves afresh to God, and the work of His kingdom.

(George W. McCree.)

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KJV: What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

WEB: What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.