Excerpt from Bishop Quintard's Samson Sermon What a Spectacle is this for angels to behold! What a life for the subject of a holy and redeeming God to be engaged in! What a perversion of im mortal powers and Godlike faculties! We learn from all this the danger of one wrong step. Not because that single [step] is wrong, but because it leads to others. The man who is only beginning the practice Of dishonesty would be shocked if his future character were unfolded to him. If he were told that a time would come when a regard to his own interest would outweigh all other consider ations; when fraud and deception would lose their deformity in his eyes; and when he would stoop to the vilest arts in order to increase his substance; he would think himself injured by the insinuation. His present intention is to retain a large portion of his integrity; and he esteems himself incapable of actions to which his present measures are a natural introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.