The tendency of the church to fondle and pet persons brought from the lowest depths of wickedness, more than they do those who have never fallen into such disgrace, and thus to put a price on infamy at the expense of respectability, is thus commented on by a writer in the St. Louis Evangelist: “When Paul remembered his past sins of persecuting the church of Christ, he said he was not meet to be called an apostle. He did not think his sin was any credit to him. He confessed his sins with tears hot with repentance. He never referred to them with smiles and jokes, aiming to create laughter. He never hinted that he was a better preacher because he was such a bad sinner. Many of our modern reformers do these things, and many Christian people endorse them by listening to them and laughing at their rehearsals of drunkenness and dishonesty.”