Seeking

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WE met a man who told us he had been seeking God for four years or more. He informed us he had been to various churches and chapels, and was wandering from place to place, seeking for the knowledge of the forgiveness of his sins. We believe this man to be a sample of many professedly zealous souls. The truth is, he was not in downright earnest. His seeking was of a listless character. He did not seek for mercy with even the determination of a poor man who has lost a shilling. Such a poor man would seek, meaning to find, but this self-styled seeker for eternal good had a kind of notion, that while it was quite right to make a religion out of his seeking God, it would be out of the question to find and to rejoice in the knowledge of salvation?