Matthew 23:34-39

1. We learn that God often takes great pains with ungodly men.
2. We learn that God takes notice of the treatment which His messengers and ministers receive, and will one day reckon for it.
3. We learn that those who are lost forever, are lost through their own fault.

"Let it be a settled principle in our religion, that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself. The evil that is in us is all our own. The good, if we have any, is all of God."

This episode made reference to the Vallenses and the Massacre of Bartholomew.