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Show The Self -Centered Egotistic Hypocrite Has No Place With God or Man By REV. DR. J. ALLEN LEAS, Chicago Preacher. The repentant sinner may be forgiven; the earnest seeker for truth and right may be aided; the weak brother may be tolerated. But a self-centered self-centered egotist is impossible with God and man. He lacks the first principle prin-ciple of good citizenship and the first quality of sonship. Our Savior called the hypocritical egotist a "whited sepulchre, full of dead men's bones." Self-righteousness is but slightly removed from "cave man stuff." It is ready to sacrifice, for personal advantage, the best friend' on earth. It will strive to condemn the very elect if perchance there may be some personal gain. It is the stuff of which demons are made. It was the cause of the fall of satan, and so long as it remains there can be no hope of pardon. Nor can it be camouflaged by pious platitudes plati-tudes nor mitigated by prayer. The self -centered man, the egotistic hypocrite, has no place with God or man. |