This question is often mentally asked, when one is tempted to commit some known sin. The fact that it is a sin cannot be concealed; its magnitude must therefore be diminished. The unhappy sinner strives to convince himself that it is a small sin, so very small that God will not regard it, or, at least, will not punish it severely. But let it be remembered there are no small sins. Every sin is a transgression of the righteous law, is an insult offered to the authority of a holy God. The smallest sin will, if unrepented of and unforgiven, secure the eternal ruin of the soul. What folly to attempt to abrogate the claims of God's laws, by blinding the mind to a perception of the true character of our actions! The darkening of our own vision will not obscure the clearness of God's searching eye. The deceiving of one's self is a very different matter from deceiving the omniscient God.—Sel.