Overcoming Our Own Sins

It is not hard to resist the devil in other folks. Many who fail to curb their own passions and prejudices, find it easy (at a safe distance) to fight the pope, or the whisky-ring, or some evil combination, or some outward error. The Scribes and Pharisees could drag a guilty woman before the Lord, but they failed to conquer their own hate and jealousy and lust. A mob, though made up of individuals who never think of fighting their own criminal faults, may wreak terrible vengeance on the crime of another. The right way to cure evil is to get every man to try to overcome his own sins. The place to begin to resist the devil is in your own heart and life.--Anon