FIRST, I am a man. I am going somewhere. Tonight I am a day nearer the grave than I was last night. I have read all that the sceptics can tell me. They shed not one solitary ray of hope or light upon the darkness. They shall not take away the guide and leave me stone-blind.
“Second, I had a mother. I saw her go down into the dark valley where I am going, and she leaned on an unseen arm as calmly as a child goes to sleep on its mother’s breast. I know that was a reality, not a dream.
“Third, I have three motherless daughters. They have no protection but myself. I would rather see them dead than leave them in this sinful world if you blot out from it all the teachings of the gospel.”
Such were the three reasons given by a thinking man for refusing infidelity. His experience proved its barrenness. And infidelity is indeed barren. It can neither satisfy a burdened conscience, nor soothe a troubled heart.
ML 01/07/1906