The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 144, Apr. 1891, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers or steal or commit adultery without receiving punishment in this life. The punishment is often delayed and we cannot count upon it with the same precision as the material world, but sooner or later the punishment comes with inexorable certainty. If one steals or lies, the punishment comes first from a wronged conscience, comes in the form of remorse- that worm that dieth not nor alloiweth its fire to be quenched. Milton carries this idea of remorse or pain still further when he says: ''Regions of sorrow, doleful Shades, where peace And rest can never dwell: hope Never comes, that comes to all: But torture without end still Urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever burning sulphur Unconsumed; Such place eternal Justice had prepared for those Rebellious; here their prison Ordained in utter darkness, and Their portion set so far Removed from God and Light of Heaven, as from the Center thrice to the utmost pole. O. how unlike the place from Whence they fell.'' Punishment comes again in the loss of the respect and confidence of our fellow students and fellow men. When the body is defiled by drink or adulterous habits, we have added to, this remorse of conscience, loss of standing in society, a wrecked and diseased body and mind. With body wrecked, mind impaired, and character gone, we have reached the acme of human misery. But those who obey laws which God has given us for the guidance of our moral conduct are not left without their reward. Show me a man who is prosperous and happy through a long series of years in his business life one who is held in high esteem in the community and I will show you one who is truthful, honest and virtuous. He who lives for himself alone, sows to himself, makes his own comfort, his own gain the first and last consideration, will not reap i44