Our part is the inculcation of positive purity, not the part of negative warning against vice.

Nor need you fear that the evil you must know, in order to fulfil your most sacred trust, will sully you.

This I say emphatically, that the evil which we have grappled with to save one of our own dear ones does not sully.

It is the evil that we read about in novels and newspapers, for our own amusement; it is the evil that we weakly give way to in our lives; above all, it is the destroying evil that we have refused so much as to know of in our absorbing care for our own alabaster skin--it is _that_ evil which defiles the woman.

But the evil that we have grappled with in a life and death struggle to save a soul for whom Christ died does not sully: it clothes from head to foot with the white robe, it crowns with the golden crown.