Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

they need in a special sense the counsel and
watchcare of their parents.
A Time of Trial Before the Young
Young Sabbathkeepers who have yielded to the
influence of the world will have to be tested and
proved. The perils of the last days are upon us, and
a trial is before the young which many have not
anticipated. They will be brought into distressing
perplexity, and the genuineness of their faith will
be proved. They profess to be looking for the Son
of man, yet some of them have been a miserable
example to unbelievers. They have not been
willing to give up the world, but have united with
the world in attending picnics and other gatherings
for pleasure, flattering themselves that they were
engaging in innocent amusement. Yet it is just such
indulgences that separate them from God and make
them children of the world.
Some are constantly leaning to the world. Their
views and feelings harmonize much better with the
spirit of the world than with that of Christ’s self-
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