THE LIMITATIONS AND TEMPTATIONS OF JOSEPH'S EARLY LIFE.
The two pieces of gold were great temptations to Baba Mustapha.
I have strange temptations to get away in her absence, for all these fine appearances.
Blessed be the Divine goodness, which has enabled thee to withstand so many temptations!
But the conditions of modern life are more complex, and temptations beset men on every side.
Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One?
One tempting little decoy-fish after another may whisk past her nose, but both palate and stomach easily withstand the temptations that are placed before her surfeited eyes.
Men are moral under the eyes of their neighbors, acquaintances, and families; habits become adjusted to right standards, and the temptations in new conditions are always great.
Charity also prays for those who want help most, and who are often known to God alone--those whose constancy is wavering, those who are led by violent temptations to the edge of the precipice.
Here she steadily resisted all temptations to stop and look at the new arrivals of birds, and to feed the carrier-pigeons who seemed to be expecting her, and who turned their soft eyes up at her reproachfully when she failed to pay her respects to them.