Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

When parents and children meet at the final
reckoning, what a scene will be presented!
Thousands of children who have been slaves to
appetite and debasing vice, whose lives are moral
wrecks, will stand face to face with the parents
who made them what they are. Who but the parents
must bear this fearful responsibility?
Beware of Moral Corruption
[Testimonies for the Church 2:457-460 (1868).]
If the sisters were elevated and possessed purity of
heart, any corrupt advances, even from their
minister, would be repulsed with such positiveness
as would never need a repetition. Minds must be
terribly befogged by Satan, when they can listen to
the voice of the seducer because he is a minister,
and therefore break God’s plain and positive
commands and flatter themselves that they commit
no sin. Have we not the words of John, “He that
saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in
him”? 1 John 2:4. What saith the law? “Thou shalt
not commit adultery.” Exodus 20:14. When a man
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