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Excerpt from A Sermon Preached in the Chapel of the College of New Jersey: And an Address to the Members of the Senior Class, May 15th, 1859
It is evident then that this plan of remedying the evil is merely the introducing of a new disease in the room of another more immediately destructive. It does not restore the system to soundness and health. Something more is requisite, if you would acquire habits that will remain unshaken by vicis situdes of fortune, and by the combined assaults of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and of the pride of life. You must keep in View the unfading crown of glory, and the purity of heart and life nec cessary to its attainment. It will be of but little avail to have your eye upon the crown, if you lose sight of the conditions on which it is conferred. Purity of mind is absolutely essential to purity of life and morals. No mind can be pure, in which corrupting thoughts are permitted to find a lodge ment, and corrupting thoughts can be excluded only by the introduction of those of a different character; Happy indeed is it for us, that our minds have this power over their own operations; and that they can exclude such thoughts as are not agreeable to them but unhappily for many, they often exert this power for the exclusion of subjects, the due consideration of which might be attended with the very best results. Some persons imagine that they are not responsible for the character of their thoughts but surely, if the remark just made be true, it is an idle imagination. Underthis false impression however, many a youth, gives full play to his fancy, andin thought and with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
