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

nothing to be hoped for in the case of the young,
unless there is an entire change in the minds of
those who are older. Vice is stamped upon the
features of boys and girls, and yet what is done to
stay the progress of this evil? Boys and young men
are allowed and encouraged to take liberties by
immodest advances of girls and young women.
May God arouse fathers and mothers to work
earnestly to change this terrible state of things, is
my prayer.
I have been looking over the Testimonies given
for Sabbathkeepers and I am astonished at the
mercy of God and His care for His people in giving
them so many warnings, pointing out their dangers,
and presenting before them the exalted position
which He would have them occupy. If they would
keep themselves in His love and separate from the
world, He would cause His special blessings to rest
upon them and His light to shine round about them.
Their influence for good might be felt in every
branch of the work and in every part of the gospel
field. But if they fail to meet the mind of God, if
they continue to have so little sense of the exalted
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