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The Lust for Nakedness, May 15
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed
adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew 5:28
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Many of the young are eager for books. They read everything they
can obtain. Exciting love stories and impure pictures have a corrupting
influence. Novels are eagerly perused by many, and, as the result, their
imagination becomes defiled. In the cars, photographs of females in a state
of nudity are frequently circulated for sale. These disgusting pictures are ...
hung upon the walls of those who deal in engravings. This is an age when
corruption is teeming everywhere. The lust of the eye and corrupt passions
are aroused by beholding and by reading. The heart is corrupted through
the imagination. The mind takes pleasure in contemplating scenes which
awaken the lower and baser passions. These vile images, seen through
defiled imagination, corrupt the morals and prepare the deluded, infatuated
beings to give loose rein to lustful passions. Then follow sins and crimes
which drag beings formed in the image of God down to a level with the
beasts, sinking them at last in perdition. Avoid reading and seeing things
which will suggest impure thoughts. Cultivate the moral and intellectual
powers. Let not these noble powers become enfeebled and perverted by
much reading of even storybooks....
It is impossible for the youth to possess a healthy tone of mind and
correct religious principles unless they enjoy the perusal of the word of
God. This book contains the most interesting history, points out the way of
salvation through Christ, and is their guide to a higher and better life. They
would all pronounce it the most interesting book they ever perused, if their
imagination had not become perverted by exciting stories of a fictitious
character. You who are looking for your Lord to come the second time to
change your mortal bodies, and to fashion them like unto His most glorious
body, must come up upon a higher plane of action. You must work from a
higher standpoint than you have hitherto done, or you will not be of that
number who will receive the finishing touch of immortality.
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