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

can select family after family of children in this
house, every one of whom is as corrupt as hell
itself. Some of them profess to be followers of
Christ, and you, their parents, are as indifferent as
though you had had a shock of paralysis.
I have said that some of you are selfish. You
have not understood what I have meant. You have
studied what food would taste best. Taste and
pleasure, instead of the glory of God, and a desire
to advance in the divine life, and to perfect holiness
in the fear of God, have ruled. You have consulted
your own pleasure, your own appetite; and while
you have been doing this, Satan has been gaining a
march upon you and, as is generally the case, has
frustrated your efforts every time.
Some of you fathers have taken your children
to the physician to see what was the matter with
them. I could have told you in two minutes what
was the trouble. Your children are corrupt. Satan
has obtained control of them. He has come right in
past you, while you, who are as God to them, to
guard them, were at ease, stupefied, and asleep.
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