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Human Respect. 
“Who is not with Me, is against Me.”—“And whosoever shall be ashamed of Me 
and of My words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when He shall come in 
His glory.” —Words of Christ. 
TTMONGr the means the infernal enemy has invented to pervert souls, 
/-L there is none which he turns to greater advantage than the shame of 
doing good; a means by which he deplorably seduces weak minds, and 
chiefly youth who, being more apt to receive the impressions of fear and 
shame, afford that malicious spirit an opportunity of abusing their weak- 
ness, by which he makes them conceive a shame for virtue, which they 
should only have for sin. 
To effect this, Satan disturbs the mind with an idea that virtue is 
contemned among men, that those are little esteemed who follow it, that if 
persons should apply themselves to virtue they would be despised, exposed 
to the censures of obloquy, and mocked at. Tie actually draws on them 
the contempt and scoffs of others ; and by these artifices he makes virtue 
hateful to them, and destroys in them all desires of salvation! And some¬ 
times, this unhappy shame gains such influence over their minds, that they 
not only blush to do good and appear virtuous, but even glory in their vices, 
and feel a certain confusion at not being as wicked as the most vicious. 
If this pernicious shame, dear Reader, has taken possession of your 
mind, you must account it one of the greatest obstacles to your salvation; 
and if you do not labor in good time to overcome it , it will inevitably be 
your ruin. Conquer it! And, after all, how very cowardly, to be ever 
waiting on the breath of popular favor— popularis aura! 
“Dare to do right—Dare to be true, 
Do have a work that no other can do, 
Do it so bravely—so kindly—so well. 
As to gladden all Heaven and silence all hell. 
