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We Choose a Life Companion Who Loves God, June 7
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Amos 3:3
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The Lord has not changed.... He is true, merciful, compassionate,
faithful in the performance of His Word, both in promises and threatenings.
One of the greatest dangers that besets the people of God today, is that of
association with the ungodly; especially in uniting themselves in marriage
with unbelievers. With many, the love for the human eclipses the love for
the divine. They take the first step in backsliding by venturing to disregard
the Lord’s express command; and complete apostasy is too often the result.
It has ever proved a dangerous thing for men to carry out their own will
in opposition to the requirements of God. Yet it is a hard lesson for men
to learn that God means what He says. As a rule, those who choose for
their friends and companions, persons who reject Christ and trample upon
God’s law, eventually become of the same mind and spirit
If we would rise to the highest moral excellence, and attain to the
perfection of religious character, what discrimination should be used in
the formation of friendships, and the choice of a companion for life....
Many who started out in life with as fair and promising a morning, in
their limited sphere, as Solomon had in his exalted station, through one
false and irrevocable step in the marriage relation, lose their souls, and
draw others down to ruin with them.... Frivolous companions, who have
no depth of principle, turn away the hearts of those who were once noble
and true, to vanity, corrupting pleasures, and downright vice
We should ever feel a deep interest in the salvation of the impenitent,
and should manifest toward them a spirit of kindness and courtesy; but we
can safely choose for our friends only those who are the friends of God
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The Signs of the Times , May 19, 1881
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The Health Reformer, May 1878
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The Signs of the Times , May 19, 1881
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