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Messages to Young People
Young men should be trained to stand firm for the right amid the
prevailing iniquity, to do all in their power to arrest the progress of vice,
and to promote virtue, purity, and true manliness. The impressions
made upon the mind and character in early life are deep and abiding.
Injudicious training or evil associations will often exert upon the young
mind an influence for evil that all after-effort is powerless to efface.—
The Signs of the Times, November 3, 1881
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Possibilities of Home Training
It is by the youth and children of today that the future of society is
to be determined, and what these youth and children shall be depends
upon the home. To the lack of right home training may be traced the
larger share of the disease and misery and crime that curse humanity.
If the home life were pure and true, if the children who went forth
from its care were prepared to meet life’s responsibilities and dangers,
what a change would be seen in the world!—
The Ministry of Healing,
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