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"He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out." —Genesis 39:12

In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. The ancient

naturalists wrote much of basilisks, whose eyes fascinated their victims and rendered them easy

victims; so the mere gaze of wickedness puts us in solemn danger. He who would be safe from

acts of evil must haste away from occasions of it. A covenant must be made with our eyes not even
to look upon the cause of temptation, for such sins only need a spark to begin with and a blaze

follows in an instant. Who would wantonly enter the leper's prison and sleep amid its horrible

corruption? He only who desires to be leprous himself would thus court contagion. If the mariner

knew how to avoid a storm, he would do anything rather than run the risk of weathering it. Cautious
pilots have no desire to try how near the quicksand they can sail, or how often they may touch a

rock without springing a leak; their aim is to keep as nearly as possible in the midst of a safe

channel.

This day I may be exposed to great peril, let me have the serpent's wisdom to keep out of it and

avoid it. The wings of a dove may be of more use to me to-day than the jaws of a lion. It is true I

may be an apparent loser by declining evil company, but I had better leave my cloak than lose my

character; it is not needful that I should be rich, but it is imperative upon me to be pure. No ties of

friendship, no chains of beauty, no flashings of talent, no shafts of ridicule must turn me from the

wise resolve to flee from sin. The devil I am to resist and he will flee from me, but the lusts of the

flesh, I must flee, or they will surely overcome me. O God of holiness preserve thy Josephs, that

Madam Bubble bewitch them not with her vile suggestions. May the horrible trinity of the world, the

flesh, and the devil, never overcome us!

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