Is the love of pleasure growing upon you, gaining the power and the ascendency over you? Is it dulling the keenness of your zest for spiritual pleasures? Is it making Bible-study, prayer, communion with Christ, meditation upon holy themes, less sweet enjoyments than before? Is it making your hunger for righteousness, for God, less intense? Is it interfering with the comfort and blessing you used to find in church services, in Christian work? If so, there is only one thing to do - to hasten to return to God, to cut off the pleasure that is imperilling the soul, and to find in Christ the joy which the world cannot give and which never harms the life. We must test all our pleasures by this rule: Are they helping us to grow into the noblest spiritual beauty?