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Messages to Young People
The habit of sitting up late at night is customary, but it is not
pleasing to God, even if you are both Christians. These untimely
hours injure health, unfit the mind for the next day’s duties, and have
an appearance of evil. My brother, I hope you will have self-respect
enough to shun this form of courtship. If you have an eye single to
the glory of God, you will move with deliberate caution. You will
not suffer lovesick sentimentalism to so blind your vision that you
cannot discern the high claims that God has upon you as a Christian.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:44, 45
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Early Marriages
Early marriages are not to be encouraged. A relation so important
as marriage and so far-reaching in its results should not be entered
upon hastily, without sufficient preparation, and before the mental and
physical powers are well developed.—
The Ministry of Healing, 358
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