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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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is an inclinati<strong>on</strong> with the youth to associate with<br />

those who are inferior in mind and morals. What<br />

real happiness can a young pers<strong>on</strong> expect from a<br />

voluntary c<strong>on</strong>necti<strong>on</strong> with pers<strong>on</strong>s who have a low<br />

standard of thoughts, feelings, and deportment?<br />

Some are debased in taste and depraved in habits,<br />

and all who choose such compani<strong>on</strong>s will follow<br />

their example. We are living in times of peril that<br />

should cause the hearts of all to fear. We see the<br />

minds of many wandering through the mazes of<br />

skepticism. The causes of this are ignorance, pride,<br />

and a defective character. Humility is a hard less<strong>on</strong><br />

for fallen man to learn. There is something in the<br />

human heart which rises in oppositi<strong>on</strong> to revealed<br />

truth <strong>on</strong> subjects c<strong>on</strong>nected with God and sinners,<br />

the transgressi<strong>on</strong> of the divine law and pard<strong>on</strong><br />

through Christ.<br />

Study the Scriptures<br />

My brethren and sisters, old and young, when<br />

you have an hour of leisure open the Bible and<br />

store the mind with its precious truths. When<br />

engaged in labor, guard the mind, keep it stayed<br />

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