The Voluptuous

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 30.

THE end of the voluptuous is, that their soul degenerates into flesh. The sources of love, mercy, and faith dry up. The heart, which has sent all its life to the senses, withers and hardens. A ferocious egotism slowly makes its way there, and seats itself on the empty throne of the generous affections. The very feelings of nature are blunted. There is darkness, cold, horror, within the soul; while around it, I mean in the flesh, everything is lit and inflamed by the fire of lust—a house lighted with a thousand lamps as on the evening of a festival; house of gladness, you would say; enter it, you will find within only a corpse, and demons that dance around it.—Anon.