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The Fruit of Nature.

From: The Evangelist: Volume 1 (1867)

Isa. 1:5, 6⁵Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ⁶From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. (Isaiah 1:5‑6).

THE human heart is like a tree

Implanted in the soil,

Whereon men hope in time to see

The fruit of patient toil;

They dig and dung it, care bestow,

And tend it more and more;

At length they gather fruit―when, lo,

‘Tis rotten to the core.

T.

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