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

Chapter 31
Contemplating Marriage
I was pointed back to last May, when the Lord
visited ——-, and was shown the case of Brother
D. He was not prepared to take part in that work.
His mind and heart were elsewhere. He was
contemplating marriage and could not listen to the
invitation of Jesus: "Come; for all things are now
ready." His contemplated marriage engrossed his
attention. He had no time or inclination to open the
door of his heart to the gracious Visitor. Had he
done this, Christ would have given him good
counsel, which, if heeded, would have been of
priceless value to him. He would have presented
before him in its true light his danger of yielding to
the dictates of a wayward inclination and setting
aside the glory of God and the decisions of sober
reason. He would have charged him to beware how
he trod in the footsteps of those who had fallen and
been ruined. But this brother did not consider that
God had claims upon him; that he should make no
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