The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96

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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96: September 27, 1934 The place to begin this self-mastery of the body is with the mind itself, for as man thinketh so is he. I grant you that there are numerous temptations today for men to have evil thoughts because of the portrayal of the sex question in moving pictures and in the display of the human body by the styles and customs of our day. Nevertheless, shall we become weaklings and yield because we are tempted I appeal to you as descendants of that Joseph who was sold into Egypt to be worthy of your ancestor who was also tempted when the wife of the ruler looked with lustful eyes upon him. Again and again She invited him to sin with her, but he repelled her approaches until finally she seized him to forcibly drag him to his ruin. He tore away from her, leaving his garments in her hands which she used as evidence in accusing him of having assaulted her. But one thing I have found to be true is that though the world may condemn you and denounce you as immoral, if you know you are clean in your own heart, all the devils in earth or hell cannot overcome you. But on the other hand, though the world may praise you and think that you are chaste and pure, if you know you are not clean in your own heart and have no confidence in the honesty and rectitude of your own life, you can never rise. So this Joseph rose in majesty and power because he was pure and innocent and he vindicated himself and secured the absolute confidence of his master. 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.