And as with them, so to a greater or less degree
is it today with everyone who gives himself up to work evil—the
influence of wrongdoing is not confined to the doer. No man liveth
unto himself. None perish alone in their iniquity. Every life is a
light that brightens and cheers the pathway of others, or a dark and
desolating influence that tends toward despair and ruin. We lead
others either upward to happiness and immortal life, or downward
to sorrow and eternal death. And if by our deeds we strengthen or
force into activity the evil powers of those around us, we share theirsin.