"Jim, while I do believe that your profession is harmful, It ain't in my power to make you stop, and even if it was it wouldn't be right for me to do so. To ask you to pack it up now would be futile posturing, because I know as well as you that you would not and cannot."

[Ezekiel said all of this quite calmly, keeping his voice even.]

"But even a poor man does not have to be unhappy, if he is rich in spirit. If he can see within his life the hand of the Lord, every man can find peace."