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162 and dissipated fellows. I advised him not to go with them, for the rule is, “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” But he said, “Oh, I am able to take care of myself wherever I am.” He was presumptuous. He sank in the waters of dissipation before he was twenty-five years old. It is a grand thing to trust in God when you are sure you are doing a thing that is necessary, or that is on the line of his commandments. But it is a foolish thing to trust that He will help you carry out your mere whims or conceits. Peter afterwards did things as wonderful as walking on the sea would have been; but they were things that were helpful to others, as when he healed the sick; or they were miraculous deliverances when he had got into trouble while doing his duty, as when the prison opened. Be afraid of nothing if you are sure you are humble and right. One of the grandest characters in old English history was Saint Cuthbert. Once