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Show a 1 1 Dr. James L Vance I 1 ii It was not a preacher but a lawyer I who said It. That makes It arresting ' Me IS Id 1 1 In an after dinner speech Which makes It more arreoilng; "The lilk"h cost of low llvlnp " Low living comeR high. The most ex-penstve ex-penstve thing in the world is sin. Let the young men who ha wsftted his sulwtance In riotous living go on the witness stand and tell us what he. thlnku about It Walk through an alcoholic ward or a syphilitic ward In a hospital, and look at the rotting bodies of the poor wretches who are paying the price of sin, and reach your own conclusion. The cheapest thi.n; In the world is just to do rlifht. But the money cost Is the smallest Item of expense In low living. The man who stamps on conscience and crucifies Ideals and follows the beck and call of the lower side of his nature, fol-I fol-I on in the trek of lust and sensuality sensu-ality Sacrifices the finest and noblest ihlnK in life. ills own nature Is paying the price. He la dally dropping down into the animal I , , - The law in his members Is triumphing over the law In his mind. People who live low usually drag others oth-ers down with them. If the sinner could be made to pay all the price of his folly, society might shut "p. I'D f the penalty wI.Imi.h out anil the I Innocent. nuffr. This piles up the MrIi cost of low living to a staggering turn, |