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

ing upon the cause a stain not easily effaced.
They wound their own souls, and will carry the
scars through their lifetime. The evildoer may see
his sins and repent, and God may pardon the
transgressor; but the power of discernment which
ought ever to be kept keen and sensitive to
distinguish between the sacred and the common, is
in a great measure destroyed. ...
I urge upon all to whom these words may
come: Review your own course of action, and
“take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your
hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day
come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it
come on all them that dwell on the face of the
whole earth.” (Luke 21:34, 35)[2]
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It is a continual struggle to be always on the
alert to resist evil, but it pays to obtain one victory
after another over self and the powers of darkness.
And if the youth are proved and tested, as was
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