Such men will come to thank God
that He made them with sexual powers in their natures. They will thank
Him that passion is a fact. They will say with utter conviction that
love with all it means both for the bodily and the spiritual life is
the greatest of all God's gifts to man.
Only to have experience of that quality a man _must_ come to marriage
undefiled. That is the fact that makes the struggle worth while. That
is what Browning meant when he said it was
"worth
That a man should strive and agonize
And taste a veriest hell on earth
For the hope of such a prize."
God does not call us men to a meaningless struggle. The fierceness of
temptation is _not_ mere cruelty. The prizes in this part of life are
great beyond all telling. If any man who reads these pages will but
brace himself for the struggle and put forth all his manhood in order
to win through, the day will come when he and a woman who is dear to
him will thank God that he did fight, and will understand that it was
abundantly worth while.
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