great
tendency
to
assist
themselves
by
means
of
their
natural
sensibilities,
a
vigorous
activity,
a
desire
to
be
always
doing
something
more
and
something
new
to
promote
their
perfection,
and,
in
their
sea-sons
of
barrenness,
an
anxiety
to
rid
themselves
of
it.
They
are
subject
to
great
variation
:
sometimes
they
do
wonders,
at
other
times
they
languish
and
decline.
They
have
no
evenness
of
conduct,
be-cause,
as
the
greater
part
of
their
religion
is
in
these
natural
sensibilities,
whenever
it
happens
that
their
sensibilities
are
dry,
either
from
want
of
work
on
their
part,
or
from
a
lack
of
correspondence
on
the
part
of
God,
they
fall
into
discouragement,
or
else
they
redouble
their
efforts,
in
the
hope
of
re-covering
of
themselves
what
they
have
lost
They
never
possess,
like
others,
a
profound
peace
or
calm-ness
in
the
midst
of
distractions
;
on
the
contrary,
they
are
always
on
the
alert
to
struggle
against
them
or
to
complain
of
them.
Such
minds
must
not
be
directed
to
passive
devo-tion
j
this
would
be
to
ruin
them
irrecoverably,
taking
from
them
their
means
of
access
to
God.
For
as
with
a
person
who
is
compelled
to
travel,
and
who
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