LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

and bemoan their folly and their loss.
2. Lessons of Social Purity.
Virtue is its own reward. Vice is sure of punishment. A life of strict
integrity and purity may seem, to some, so dull, so devoid of spice and
fun, that the temptation to escape the exactions of the narrow path
often prove successful. Stolen waters are said to be sweet; but at the last,
how bitter, bitterly bitter, do they become!
"Surely," said the Tempter, "if you but taste, you will be as gods, knowing
good and evil." They tasted--and evil they knew, and all the world has
known, alas! after it is too late! Better not to know, if the knowledge
brings such disaster.
The dark river may be called upon to hide from a cruel world, a shame
the victim cannot, will not face.
The questions of right and wrong have but one answer. These problems
are not hard to solve. In fact, both in revelation and experience, the
answers are written out so plainly that, if we will, we cannot help but
know them. Why, then, tamper? Why experiment? Why learn by the
hard and remorseful way of trial, when the lesson will be too late to
serve any advantage? To these morally corrupt, disease-tainted,
sorrow-laden souls, God's Word cries in anguish: ""Oh, that you had
heeded my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a
river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea!”
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