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

children, and constant employment, as their
strength could bear, would have given them less
opportunity to corrupt their own bodies by selfabuse,
and would have prevented them from
instructing a large number in this hellish practice.
Labor is a great blessing to all children, especially
to that class whose minds are naturally inclined to
vice and depravity.
These children have communicated more
knowledge of vice in——-than all the united
efforts of ministers and people professing godliness
can counteract. Many who have learned of your
children will go to perdition rather than control
their passions and cease the indulgence of this sin.
One corrupt mind can sow more evil seed in a short
period of time than many can root out in a whole
lifetime. Your children are a byword in the mouths
of blasphemers of the truth. These are the children
of Sabbathkeepers, but they are worse than the
children of worldlings in general. They possess less
refinement, less self-respect. Brother F has been no
honor to the cause of God. His impetuous temper
and general influence have not had a tendency to
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