+III. The way of escape from the tempter.+ 1. _Calling to mind his filial relation._ "My son." It is a great help to a youth who is in danger of being drawn away from his steadfastness in the path of virtue to call his parents to mind. His father's instructions and example, his mother's love and prayers, the grief that his fall would bring upon them will, if reflected on, be a means of escape from the tempter's snare. The thought that he is a _son_ ought to be sufficient to keep him from straying. 2. _A consideration of the certain end of sinners._ Those who promise themselves and others secresy shall be taken openly. The bird will not be decoyed into the net if he sees it spread, the trap must be laid in secret if it is to be successful. But sinners go on in sin although they are forewarned by God, by their own consciences, by the law of human society, and by the experience of others what the end will be. "Be sure your sin will find you out," is written, not only in the book of God, but within us and around us. The young man is to bear in mind that they are _fools_ who tell him there is gain to be had by sin. Those who seek to take life in order to enjoy the property of others, or in any way to wrong their fellows for their own fancied gain, shall themselves, like Haman, be hanged upon the gallows which they have made. Let the youth reflect upon the sad histories of those who now fill our convict-prisons, and he will feel that it is indeed true that evil-doers "lay wait for their _own_ blood." _OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS._