Evil of Association by Spencer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 18, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 51.

Evil of Association.

By Spencer

AUGUSTINE, in his Confessions, maketh mention of his friend, Alipius, who, having resolved with himself never to look upon the fencers' prizes, was, upon a time, thru the importunity of his friends, drawn along to the theater where these bloody sports were performed, protesting that he would keep his eyes shut all the while, and not so much as once open them; yet it so fell out, that, upon a sudden great shout of the people, he looked about to see what the matter was, whereupon he became another man, and altered his former course, so that his hatred to the sport was turned into love and liking of it.—Spencer.