Noble Aspiration Guards Against Temptation

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 10.

Noble Aspiration Guards Against Temptation

HERE is a valuable hint to all teachers of youth and reformers of the erring. The best way to lift a soul above the temptations of a depraved physical nature is to fill it with a worthy aspiration—to fix it upon some noble aim with high and firm resolve. The Master's parable of the swept and garnished house is most true: An empty soul is a standing invitation to roving spirits of evil. One who would save man must not only cast out possessing devils, but set in an absorbing spirit of good. The music of Orpheus within the soul is a surer guard against temptation than the wax of Ulysses in the ears.—Sel.

"LET thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord," Ps. 119:41.