Of one thing be assured, no truth avails unless you are prepared to carry it out in every day's practice. The world will let you hold and even say anything provided they see that you have no serious thought of being faithful, and so calling them to be the same. He then has not the smallest resemblance to the Lord's messenger, who says one thing and does another, who denounces the world, yet seeks it for his family, judges rightly, yet never thinks of acting out his convictions. Is this living so as to give effect to a divine testimony? He who is the living spring of the truth is also the Holy Spirit. What can be more calculated to destroy the truth than practical inconsistence with it?