A Solemn Appeal - James White

peace, joy, and health.
Even many professed Christians seem to have
no earnest desire for this heavenly knowledge, and
remain in willing ignorance of this divine grace
which it is their privilege to obtain. The only safety
for the youth is to seek this precious wisdom,
which will assuredly destroy all desire for corrupt
knowledge. And when they have acquired a relish
for the pure, calm, satisfying joys of faith and
holiness, every feeling of their being will rise in
abhorrence to corrupting pleasures. All can choose
life if they will. They can resist sin, take pleasure
in the ways of righteousness and true holiness, and
be rewarded with eternal life in God's everlasting
kingdom.
If they choose to corrupt their ways before the
Lord, defile their own bodies and commit selfmurder,
they can do so; but they should remember
that the judgment is to sit, and the books are to be
opened, and they are to be judged out of those
things which are written in the books, according to
their works. What a fearful, spotted record will be
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