Innocent happiness, oh what a world of beatific vision is wrapped up in those two words; what a heaven on earth they picture and signify! But if any of you seek for happiness in sin, which is the forgetfulness of God and defiance of His will; in crime, which is some wicked offence against the welfare, the peace, the purity of man; in vice, which is some degraded tendency in your own personal life, then, my brethren, the sin, the crime, the vice leave upon the soul and conscience that dark stain of guilt which is an abiding and horrifying sense of God's wrath, and causes irretrievable shipwreck of all present happiness and all future peace.
F. W. Farrar — F. W. Farrar, D.D., "In the Days of Thy Youth": Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College, from 1871 to 1876 (New York: Macmillan and Co., n.d.), Sermon X, "Innocent Happiness," p. 94
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