The owner refused to sell; yet with much persuasion he was contented to let it.

The abbot hired it and covenanted only to farm it for one crop.

He had his bargain, and sowed it with acorns--a crop that lasted three hundred years.

So Satan asks to get possession of our souls by asking us to permit some small sin to enter, some one wrong that seems of no great account.

But when once he has entered and planted the seeds and beginnings of evil, he holds his ground.
"Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasurable," says Walter Scott, "and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer." Thomas A.Edison was once asked why he was a total abstainer.