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Show No Getting Away From Defilement of Pitch When a man with a hitherto good character gets mixed up with some scandal, or allows li Is name to be associated as-sociated with a shady transaction, it Is often said, "You can't touch pitch without being defiled." Pitch is one of those singularly adhesive things which, touch it ever so lightly, leaves, If not a stain, at least an odor. The correct quotation Is, "lie that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith,"' there-with,"' and many people would be inclined in-clined to look for it In the book of Proverbs. It Is not In the authorized version of the Scriptures, but forms the verse of Chapter XIII of the book of Ecelesiustlcus, one of the books of the Apocrypha those sacred writings which are not Included In the canon of Scripture. |