Show the he danger of the inferior we are often told that one reason why we should not go down to the interior th Is that they can never satisfy us but the danger Is that they may satisfy us A boy at school may come to like 1 evil talk and unworthy stories when he 1 ft home such things were unnatural and dig tasteful to him but he let himself down to them little bv little until anything else Is uncongenial to him the interior inferior things have come to satisfy him k popular lecturer told recently of having heard one woman say to another as they came away from an ibsen play I 1 do not like ibsen he lie takes the hope out of life it if she spoke sin berely it was only because she had brought her self to such an unnatural philosophy she did not begin life with so unwholesome and untrue a view in the days that were real and worthy it was hope which made life beautiful if now she preferred hopelessness it was because her pret erencen had degenerated and that had begun to satisfy her blitch formerly would have been the very depth of darkness to her this Is the peril of the soul souls s freedom the very capacity to rise involves the capacity to descend just as we can go forward from any at tain ment discontented with it to higher things which alone can satisfy us so we can go back ward and downward into tastes experiences and character which would once have been utterly ie to us but which have the dreadful power of becomer g the soul s desired aim so that we are s the soul can shrivel as well as ex and we must beware of those who tell ua that we ve can go down to anything we wish with out fear that we can throw off the interior inferior things whenever we wish and return to our na ive lve place we cannot the soul adapts itself to its environment and we may beco meso satis fled on oil the low planes that we shall never vake ake to discontent then our birthright will be gone and we shall not care to have it back again the danger of all sin and surrender Is that they may stupefy the tas e and satisfy it |