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and sincere in our professed desire to be true Christians ? Have we given up all our idols ? Is there no secret sin that we are silently clinging to, and refusing to give up ? Is there no thing or person that we are privately loving more than Christ and our souls ? These are questions that ought to be answered. The true explanation of the unsatisfactory state of many hearers of the Grospel, is spiritual idolatry. St. John might well say, ^'Keep yourselves from idols." (1 John v. 21.)