Counsels for the Church - Ellen G. White

for Him. You will be invited to attend places of amusement, and then it will
be that you will have an opportunity to testify to your Lord. If you are true to
Christ then, you will not try to form excuses for your nonattendance, but will
plainly and modestly declare that you are a child of God, and your principles
would not allow you to be in a place, even for one occasion, where you could
not invite the presence of your Lord.
Between the associations of the followers of Christ for Christian
recreation and worldly gatherings for pleasure and amusement will exist a
marked contrast. Instead of prayer and the mentioning of Christ and sacred
things will be heard from the lips of worldlings the silly laugh and the trifling
conversation. Their idea is to have a general high time. Their amusements
commence in folly and end in vanity.
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