also. And these things will they do unto
you, because they have not known the Father nor Me."

_It is natural for the evil to hate the good._--First, the sinner has
an uneasy conscience, and it hurts him to come in contact with those
whose character reminds him of what he ought to be, and might be, and
perhaps once was. The diseased eye dreads the light. The uncanny,
slimy things that lurk beneath stones, and in dark caves, squirm in
pain when you let in the day. The Turkish Sultan dislikes the presence
of British representatives, and correspondents of the Daily Press, amid
the dark deeds of blood and lust by which he is making Armenia a
desert. "Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."

In addition to an uneasy conscience, the sinner has an unbroken will.
He stoutly resists the impression of a superior and condemning
goodness. He hardens his heart, and strengthens its defences. "Who is
the Lord, that I should obey His voice? Double the tale of bricks:
summon the choice chariots and veteran soldiers of Egypt, that we may
pursue, overtake, and divide the spoil." Such are the successive boats
and challenges of the hardened heart.

Is it to be wondered at, under such conditions, that the wicked
plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth, that
he draws his sword and bends his bow, to shoot privily at the upright
of heart? "The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is
judged."

_The great object of this hatred is to overcome the good._--In this
respect the hate of the world is like the love of the Church. The
child of God loves, that he may overcome the evil in the world, by
converting evil-doers from the error of their ways and assimilating
them to holiness; the child of the devil hates, that he may overcome
the good of the world, by arresting their goodness, and assimilating to
evil. Ah, how thankful we may be that we are not of the world, but
have been chosen out of it; for it lieth in the wicked one, and is
infected with the hatred of hell.

It is not difficult, therefore, to go through the world, and escape its
hate. We have only to adopt its maxims, speak its language, and
conform to its ways. In the well-known picture of the Huguenots, the
young girl, with pleading, upturned face, seeks to tie the Royalist
scarf around her lover