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

upon your shallowness of character. They count
you a coquette, and you have justly earned this
reputation. It would have been much more
profitable for you to have heeded the exhortation of
the apostle: "Whose adorning let it not be that
outward adorning; . . . but let it be the hidden man
of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even
the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price."
Your parents have greatly failed in the
education of their children. They have suffered
them to be released from burdens which it was
highly important for them to bear. Because they
chose to please themselves, they were permitted to
remain in bed, dozing away the sweetest and
loveliest hours of the morning, while their
indulgent parents were up, toiling with life's
burdens. These children have not learned to resist
their inclinations, to wrestle against their own
desires; they have not learned to endure hardness.
They have been excused in a great measure from
home burdens, and this has been an injury to them.
They have never learned the act of self-denial or
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