If ye love me, keep my commandments (John 14:15). If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (1 John 2:15). But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless (Matt. 12:7). It may be a common observation that it is easier to corrupt a congregation than it is to edify it. To build it up in faith and conviction seems to be the result of years of instruction and agony.