Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

sympathized with you more or less, and their
feelings were stirred by your exaggerated reports.
They injured you. You had not been as strictly
disciplined as you should have been. Yet you were
offended because you could not have your own
way, but were compelled to yield to the decided,
thorough manner of Brother H's instructions. While
in school, you were sometimes troublesome,
impudent, and defiant, and greatly lacked modesty
and decorum. You were bold, selfish, and selfexalted,
and needed firm discipline at home as well
as at school.
Your mind is impure. You were relieved from
care and labor altogether too long. Household
duties would have been one of the richest blessings
that you could have had. Weariness would not have
injured you one tenth as much as have your
lascivious thoughts and conduct. You have
received incorrect ideas in regard to girls' and boys'
associating together, and it has been very congenial
to your mind to be in the company of the boys.
You are not pure in heart and mind. You have been
injured by reading love stories and romances, and
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