Conscience may be practically destroyed by long obstinacy in sin, and by resisting the recognized voice of conscience and the Holy Ghost. Men can persuade themselves of almost anything. From deceiving others they arrive at deceiving themselves, and extinguishing the natural light that is in them. They disguise abominable principles under vague formulas, they declare that the higher law is an unnatural tyranny, that the passions are the real and only law of life; they call good by the name of evil, and evil by the name of good; they stifle conviction, and pass off mere obstinance for sincerity. Finally the moral sense becomes extinct; the very light which is in them becomes darkness; self- deception is complete, and they go down blind and unsuspecting to the abyss. It is possible for any one to allow himself so to be tempted by Satin as to come to this extreme. It is a most terrible evil to themselves and to the world when any men arrive at this destruction of conscience.
Pray God that this light of His countenance may never be dimmed or extinguished in you.
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