. Lectures to young people:. ength ; to secure to yourself the pleasure resultingfrom a victory. Here again, you place yourself on theenemies ground without a warrant; you rush into thefield, before you have orders from the Captain of salvation ;and you have nothing to expect but that your presump-tion will be punished by an ignominious defeat. I repeat,then, watch against all needless occasions of you are careful not to decline any conflict to whichyou are called in the course of duty, be equally carefulnot to volunteer your service in this way, where there isno occasion. Wat
. Lectures to young people:. ength ; to secure to yourself the pleasure resultingfrom a victory. Here again, you place yourself on theenemies ground without a warrant; you rush into thefield, before you have orders from the Captain of salvation ;and you have nothing to expect but that your presump-tion will be punished by an ignominious defeat. I repeat,then, watch against all needless occasions of you are careful not to decline any conflict to whichyou are called in the course of duty, be equally carefulnot to volunteer your service in this way, where there isno occasion. Watch against the power of temptation. I have al-ready said that, in the discharge of duty, you will oftennecessarily be placed in circumstances in which you maybe tempted : here then your whole vigilance is to be putin requisition, that you do not fall; and you have everyencouragement to this course from the fact that you areengaged in the cause, and at the bidding, of your Master Count it all joy, says the apostle James, when. 208 ye fall into divers temptations ; i. e. if God in his pro-vidence bring his children into temptation, it may be anoccasion of joy to them, as furnishing additional evidenceof his paternal kindness in bringing them through it, andof their renovation. As temptation derives its powerchiefly from a wrong state of the heart, it is especiallynecessary, when you are placed in these circumstances,that you should keep your heart with all diligence. Youare to cultivate indeed, at all times, that lively sense ofdivine things, that spiritual and heavenly frame of feeling,which will be most likely to shield you from this evil;but you are to take special care to bring yourself underthe influence of religious feelings, as you are about toapproach a scene of temptation. You are to go with yourwhole soul bathed in the holy influences of the gospel;with that spirit which prompted the blessed Redeemer,in similar circumstances, to say, Get thee behind me,Satan. And if you
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