Plenty of people will tell you so, and try to deceive you with vain
words, and give you arguments, and texts of scripture perhaps, to
prove that sin is not sin, and that the children of light may do the
works of darkness. But do not believe them, says St. Paul. They are
deceivers, and their words are vain. These are the very things which
bring down God's wrath on His disobedient children. These are the
bad ways which make young people, when they are married, despise, and
distrust, and quarrel with each other, and live miserable lives
together, as children of wrath, peevish, and wrathful, and
discontented with each other, because they feel that God is angry
with them, just as Adam in the garden, when he felt that he had
sinned, and that God was wroth with him, laid the blame on his wife,
and accused her, whom he ought to have loved, and protected, and
excused.
These are the bad ways which make people ashamed when they meet a
good and a respectable person, make them afraid of being overheard,
afraid of being found out, fond of haunting low and out-of-the-way
places where they will not be seen; fond of prowling and lurching out
at night after their own sinful pleasures, because the darkness hides
them from their neighbours, and seems to hide them from themselves,
though it cannot hide them from God.
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