I know that right living comes only from right thinking. To do right
under stress of law or custom while desiring to do wrong is to make a
mockery of virtue. I must sincerely desire to do right. The forces of
life-control must act from within me, not from without. From all
hypocrisy and false pretense,
_Dear Lord, deliver me._
V
I know that a woman cannot be virtuous if she longs for sensuality, or
dallies with it, or dwells upon it in her thoughts, even though she
refrain from any sinful act. Nor can a married woman be a truly virtuous
wife if she yields to perverse revellings of the imagination which
defile body and soul--_even with her husband_! From all defilements of
love,
_Dear Lord, deliver me._
THE END
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