An Appeal to the Youth - Ellen G. White

way, but of sacrificing your will and way to gratify
and make others happy.
I know a man that is now living, who in youth
had his own way, was not willing to yield his
notions, and he grew up to want his own way, and
carry out his own will in everything. We have been
acquainted with him for quite a number of years,
and he is, we think, a very unhappy man. He is
irritated at once if every one does not do just as he
wishes to have them. When people first see him
they think that he is a good man, but when they
become acquainted with him they change their
minds, become tired of him, and wish he was
elsewhere. He is a trial to everybody, is easily out
of temper, and makes himself unhappy, and every
one around him.
Now, children, if you would not wish to be like
this unhappy man, you must learn to govern
yourselves while young. Don’t give way to fretful,
unkind feelings; but remember that the Lord reads
even the thoughts of the heart, and nothing is
concealed from his all-seeing eye. Right acts, right
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