Integrity is what we need...
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Integrity is what we need and are expected to have. Jezebel did not have integrity. As for Ahab, "You have devoted yourself completely to doing what is wrong in the Lord's sight."
If you think we are far, far removed from this temptation, we need but hear again of Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. These people were supposedly upright. Twain writes, "Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region around about." Nevertheless Hadleyburg offended a passing stranger possibly without knowing it. You recall that supposedly a large sum of gold would go to the man who helped the stranger.
Hadleyburg had dropped from being Hadleyburg the Incorruptible on the lips of every American in every part of the country. Why? Because 19 supposedly incorruptible men said that they were the helper.
What scorn was heaped on Hadleyburg to the extent that they petitioned the legislature to allow them to change their name. Twain doesn't tell us which town it is so that it could be any town. In fact, it is any place. Their motto was revised from "Lead us not into temptation" by leaving out the "not."
--Richardson
If you think we are far, far removed from this temptation, we need but hear again of Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. These people were supposedly upright. Twain writes, "Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region around about." Nevertheless Hadleyburg offended a passing stranger possibly without knowing it. You recall that supposedly a large sum of gold would go to the man who helped the stranger.
Hadleyburg had dropped from being Hadleyburg the Incorruptible on the lips of every American in every part of the country. Why? Because 19 supposedly incorruptible men said that they were the helper.
What scorn was heaped on Hadleyburg to the extent that they petitioned the legislature to allow them to change their name. Twain doesn't tell us which town it is so that it could be any town. In fact, it is any place. Their motto was revised from "Lead us not into temptation" by leaving out the "not."
--Richardson
