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

in this age of the world. My sister, God requires
you to be transformed. Elevate your affections, I
implore you. Devote your mental and physical
powers to the service of your Redeemer, who has
bought you. Sanctify your thoughts and feelings
that all your works may be wrought in God.
You have been in a sad deception. God would
have you investigate closely every thought and
purpose of your heart. Deal truly with your own
soul. Had your affections been centered upon God
as He requires, you would not have passed through
the trials you have. There is a restlessness of spirit
with you which will not be relieved until your
thoughts are changed; until daydreaming and
castle-building cease, and you do the work of the
present.
In your letter writing, leave matchmaking and
guessing about the marriages of your friends. The
marriage relation is holy, but in this degenerate age
it covers vileness of every description. It is abused,
and has become a crime which now constitutes one
of the signs of the last days, even as marriages,
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