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

happiness unalloyed, and an eternal weight of
glory.
Satan will oppose every effort they may make.
He will present the world before them in its most
attractive light, as he did to the Saviour of the
world when he tempted Him forty days in the
wilderness. Christ overcame all the temptations of
Satan, and so may your children. They are serving
a hard master. The wages of sin is death. They
cannot afford to sin. They will find it expensive
business. They will meet with eternal loss in the
end. They will lose the mansions Jesus has gone to
prepare for those who love Him, and will lose that
life which measures with the life of God. And this
is not all. They must suffer the wrath of an
offended God for having withheld from Him their
service and given all their efforts to His worst
enemy. Your children have not yet had the clear
light, and condemnation only follows the rejection
of light.
If professed Christians were all sincere and
earnest in their efforts to promote the glory of God,
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