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4 The inconsistency of the objection often urged against an outward display of an earnest spirit is evident. It admits of the impulse, but objects to its activity. Such a ?ie? is plainly at war with both nature and revelation. God has given to us an emotional capacity or impulse, which moves us in attraction or repulsion whenever our object is presented, and corresponding to this he has offered up before us ways of service, and commands us to run for his honor, for the good of others, and for our own. That impulse like a sliding scale, rises or lowers in exact accordance with the importance of the object presented. It is the thermometer