GET AT THE ROOT.
I WAS weeding in my garden one day, when I saw
a small young dock-weed. I pulled it with my
hands, but it would not come up. I then dug at
its root with a little spade, but only part of it gave
way, so that I was obliged to take more pains and
use more strength; and at last I dug up a large
old root, which had been cut down and cut down,
but never rooted up, and had now again sent out a
young shoot. I thought directly that this great
old root was just like sin in the heart. It may
only show itself in a little fault, but still it is there,
and the only cure is to root it out altogether, which
you must ask God to enable you to do.
