C. C. L by C. C. L.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1882

C. C. L

By C. C. L.

The man who steals his fellow’s purse is called a thief, and justly locked in prison; while the human brute who steals the affections of another, only to feast his base passions for a time, and then trample them beneath his vile feet, still roams at large to make new conquests, and increase his shame.

Of the two, the former is by far the more honorable man, inasmuch as money in value can never measure the affections of the heart; the contemptible meanness of the latter is fittingly illustrated by the vampire that sucks the life from his victim, and casts the body away.