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A genus of plants, of several species, including the common ash-tree. 
The Fire of Inordinate Passion. 
np IS true, the thought of our heart is bent upon evil; or, as the Scrip- 
ture says, “The imagination and thought of man’s heart are prone 
to evil from his youth.” 
Or, whence are wars and contentions amongst us? Are they not 
hence ? from our concupiscences, which war in our members ? 
But this our inordinate concupiscence should be under us and we 
should have dominion over it. 
We should also well consider, that there is set before us, this day, 
life and good; and on the other hand, death and evil. 
“Go not, therefore, after thy lusts,” says the Wise Man, “but turn 
away from thine own will. If thou give to thy soul her desires, she will 
make thee a joy to thine enemies.” 
On the contrary, “Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting 
and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and 
envy; but put ye on the Lord Jesus , and make not provision for the flesh 
in its concupiscences.”— -St. Paid to the Romans , xiii, 13-14.. 
Fire is good, but it must serve; 
Keep it thralled,—for if it swerve 
Into freedom’s open path, 
What shall check its maniac wrath? 
Where’s the tongue that can proclaim 
The fearful work of curbless flame? 
Listen, youth! nor scorn, nor frown, 
Thou must chain thy passions down , 
Well to serve, but ill to sway, 
Like the fire they must obey. 
— Anon . 
