but on weekdays I am drawn along with those about me.
All my pleasures are innocent ones;
there is surely no harm in going to concerts, driving out, singing, and making little visits!
But these things distract me;
they absorb me;
they make religious duties irksome.
I almost wish I could shut myself up in a cell and so get out of the reach of temptation.
The truth is,
the journey heavenward is all uphill.
I have to force myself to keep on.
The wonder is that anybody gets there with so much to oppose-
so little to help one!"
Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward (p.73)
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