Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — TEMPTATIONS. [ARTICLE]

TEMPTATIONS.

Too many of us are gardeners to our temptations. We cultivate them assiduously. We do. not realize that the strength or the weakness of a temptation depends largely on ourselves. Every time we yield the temptation to which we have yielded is strengthened for its next attack, and it may take half a dozen victories on our part to counteract the strength imparted to a temptation by a single failure of ours.