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

learn to refuse the evil and choose the good. We
are required to watch and pray without ceasing; for
a snare is set in our path, and we shall find some
device of Satan when and where we least expect it.
If at that particular time we are not watching unto
prayer we shall be taken by the enemy and meet
with decided loss.
What a responsibility has rested upon you as
parents! How little have you felt the weight of this
burden! Pride of heart, love of show, and the
indulgence of appetite have occupied your minds.
These things have been first with you, and the
incoming of the foe has not been perceived. He has
planted his standard in your house and stamped his
detestable image upon the characters of your
children. But you were so blinded by the god of
this world, so deadened to spiritual and divine
things, that you could not discern the advantage
which Satan had gained nor his workings right in
your family.
You have brought children into the world who
have had no voice in regard to their existence. You
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