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Selected Messages Book 2
1912 and recorded on page 344 of this volume. But Ellen White adds
words that call for thoughtful contemplation:
“Do not unite yourself in marriage with a girl who will have cause
to regret the step forever after...
.
“O what covetous, selfish, short-sighted creatures human beings
are. Distrust your own judgment, and depend on the judgment of God.
Distinguish between what is pleasing and what is profitable. Do God’s
will submissively.... Following your own way and your own will, you
will find thorns and thistles.”—Ellen G. White
Letter 4, 1901
.]
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While these four messages of counsel were written at a particular
time to meet situations in a particular geographical area, may they
not serve to alert any contemplating marriage to circumstances and
factors that could imperil the union and bequeath to the children an
inheritance that some may resent?
These counsels are among those given the believer, dealing with a
significant and far-reaching experience in life and presenting a course
of action least fraught with factors that may lead to heartaches and
could impair or destroy the union. As Ellen White says, “Jesus wants
to see happy marriages, happy firesides.”
The repeated statements made by Ellen G. White orally and in her
writings make clear that the issue is not that of inequality of race. She
ever maintained that there is a close brotherhood of mankind, and that
in the records of heaven the name of the individual of one race stands
beside the name of one of another race. Read carefully the appendix
which follows entitled, “The Brotherhood of Mankind.”
White Trustees
.
Ellen G. White Estate,
Inc. Washington, D.C.,
D.C. August, 1967.
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