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

directed in a wrong channel. You now amount to
little else than a blank in society. This need not be.
You can do for yourself that which no one else can
do for you. You have duties to perform, but you
have so long yielded to a helpless condition that
you imagine you cannot do them. The will is at
fault; you have the power, but not the will.
You are pining for love. Jesus calls for your
affections; if you will devote them to Him, He will
rid you of all this sickly, sentimental, impure love,
found in the pages of a novel. In Jesus you may
love with fervor, with earnestness. This love may
increase in depth and expand without limit, and not
endanger health of body or strength of mind. You
need love to God and to your neighbor. You must
awake, you must shake off this deception which is
upon you, and seek pure love.
Your only hope of this life and the better life is
to seek earnestly for the true religion of Jesus. You
have not a religious experience. You need to be
converted. Your listless, indolent, selfish sadness
will then give place to cheerfulness, which will be
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