A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

lustful passion, but these things, to a great extent,
are kept covered. Ministers, in high places, are
guilty, yet a cloak of godliness covers their dark
deeds, and they pass on from year to year in their
course of hypocrisy. Their sins have reached unto
Heaven.
Fornication and adultery are estimated by many
professing Christians as sins which God winketh
at. These sins are practiced to a great extent. They
do not acknowledge the claims of God’s law upon
them. They have broken the commandments of the
great Jehovah, and are zealously teaching their
hearers to do the same, declaring that the law of
God is abolished, and consequently has no claims
upon them. In accordance with this free state of
things, sin does not appear so exceedingly sinful;
for by the law is the knowledge of sin, We may
expect to find men among those who thus teach,
who will deceive, and lie, and give loose rein to
lustful passions. But men and women who
acknowledge the ten commandments binding,
should carry out in their lives, the principles of all
ten of the precepts given in awful grandeur from
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