Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Flee from those who would, even in conversation,
let the mind run in such a channel; “for out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
Matthew 12:34.
As those who practice these defiling sins are
steadily increasing in the world and would intrude
themselves into our churches, I warn you to give
no place to them. Turn from the seducer. Though a
professed follower of Christ, he is Satan in the
form of man; he has borrowed the livery of heaven
that he may the better serve his master. You should
not for one moment give place to an impure, covert
suggestion; for even this will stain the soul, as
impure water defiles the channel through which it
passes.
Choose poverty, reproach, separation from
friends, or any suffering, rather than to defile the
soul with sin. Death before dishonor or the
transgression of God’s law, should be the motto of
every Christian. As a people professing to be
reformers, treasuring the most solemn, purifying
truths of God’s word, we must elevate the standard
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