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Many make religion their cloak and Christ their stalking-horse, and by that means cover themselves and hide their own wickedness from men: but God seeth their hearts, hath his print upon the heels of their feet, and pondereth all their goings; and at last, when their iniquity is found to be hateful, he will either smite them with hardness of heart and so leave them, or awaken them to bring forth fruit.
And the light shone on the empty benches. And when the time came he opened the old book of the Jews; and he turned the leaves and read: 'If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, 'Behold we knew it not! Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it?
So he spake; and Iron-face sat still and put his left hand to his beard as one who pondereth; but the Bride looked in the face of the old man the Fiddle, and then she turned and looked at Gold-mane, and her face softened, and she stood before the Alderman, and bent down before him and held out both her hands to him the palms upward.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he render to every man according to his works? PROVERBS xxiv. 11, 12. What is called the missionary spirit is nothing else than the Christian church working in a particular direction.
Behold their houses which We have left to the spiders, and take heed, O ye who are endued with understanding! Blessed is he who readeth it and pondereth its contents, for a goodly end doth in truth await him. 21 Thus have We recounted unto thee the tale of the evil-doers, that thine eyes may be solaced. As for thee, there lieth in store naught but a blissful end. He is the Almighty!
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
'Over the page the saint says: "Every man naturally desireth to know; but what doth knowledge avail without the fear of God?" "Truly, a lowly rustic that serveth God is better than a proud philosopher who pondereth the course of the stars and neglecteth himself." "He that knoweth himself becometh vile to himself, and taketh no delight in the praises of men."
Whoever pondereth this truth in his heart will readily admit that there are certain limits which no human being can possibly transgress.
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