epicurism

So when the Traveler tears into the principle of epicurism, there's no question about who he's going after.

In "Grace Before Meat" Lamb had combined his biblical belly--mouth antithesis with a reference to the apostle Paul's characterization of "the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things" (Philippians 3:18-19): The heats of epicurism put out the gentle flame of devotion.

His personal enemies of promise were sloth, disguised as fastidious indolence; gluttony, disguised as epicurism; and bibulosity, masquerading as connoisseurship.

And in this volume, the record of seventeen years, we have the result of those spiritual experiences in a form calculated, as we believe, to be a priceless benefit to many an earnest seeker in this generation, and perhaps to stir up some who are priding themselves on a cold dilettantism and barren epicurism, into something like a living faith and hope.