Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1910 — Purified by Trial. [ARTICLE]

Purified by Trial.

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her ba}ts and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain and yet distinguish and yet prefer that which Is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexerclsed and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that Immortal garland Is to be run for, not without dust and heat Assuredly we bring not Innocence Into the world, we bring Impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.—Milton.