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lot with Christ. They love amusement and are filled with selfish ideas,
plans, hopes, and ambitions. They serve the enemy under the pretense
of serving God. They are in bondage to a taskmaster, and this bondage
they choose, making themselves willing slaves of Satan.
The false idea entertained by many, that the restraining of children
is an injury, is ruining thousands upon thousands. Satan will surely
take possession of the children if you are not on your guard. Do not
encourage their association with the ungodly. Draw them away. Come
out from among such yourselves, and show them that you are on the
Lord’s side.
Will those who claim to be the children of the Most High elevate
the standard, not simply while assembled in your meeting, but as long
as time shall last? Will you not be on the Lord’s side and serve Him
with full purpose of heart? If you do as did the children of Israel in
forsaking God’s express requirements you will surely receive of His
judgments; but if you put away sin and exercise living faith, the richest
of heaven’s blessings will be yours.
Basel, Switzerland,
March 1, 1887
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