OUTWARDLY; meanness will succeed so--lies--oppression--theft--
adultery--drunkenness--godlessness--they are all pleasant enough
while they last, I suppose; and a man may reap what he calls
substantial benefits from them in money, and suchlike, and keep that
safe enough; but has his sin succeeded? Has it not FOUND HIM OUT?--
found him out never to lose him again? Is he the happier for it?
Does he feel freer for it? Does he respect himself the more for
it?--No! And even though he may prosper now, yet does there not run
though all his selfish pleasure a certain fearful looking forward to
a fiery judgment to which he would gladly shut his eyes, but cannot?

Cunning, fair-spoken oppressor of the poor, has not thy sin found
thee out? Then be sure it will. In the shame of thine own heart it
will find thee out;--in the curses of the poor it will find thee
out;--in a friendless, restless, hopeless death-bed, thy
covetousness and thy cruelty will glare before thee in their true
colours, and thy sin will find thee out!

Profligate woman, who art now casting away thy honest name, thy
self-respect, thy womanhood, thy baptism-vows, that thou mayest
enjoy the foul pleasures of sin for a season, has not thy sin found
thee out? Then be sure it will hereafter, when thou hast become
disgusted at thyself and thine own infamy,--and youth, and health,
and friends, are gone, and a shameful and despised old age creeps
over thee, and death stalks nearer and nearer, and God vanishes
further and further off, then thy sin will find thee out!

Foolish, improvident young man, who art wasting the noble strength
of youth, and manly spirits which God has given thee on sin and
folly, throwing away thine honest earnings in cards and drunkenness,