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conscientious ones without our best care and protection. Whether or
not our youth who have received wise instruction and training from
godly parents will continue to be sanctified through the truth depends
largely upon the influence that, after leaving their homes, they meet
among those to whom they look for Christian instruction.
I am instructed to repeat to our brethren and sisters the warning
and the exhortation that Paul sent to the church at Thessalonica:
“The mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one
that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall
be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the
breath of His mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of His
coming; even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of
unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the
love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God
sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: that
they all might be judged who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.”
2 Thessalonians 2:7-12
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“But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren
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beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you
to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
whereunto He called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the
traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which
hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope
through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good
word and work.”
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17
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September, 1903
As I consider the state of things in Battle Creek, I tremble for our
youth who go there. The light given me by the Lord, that our youth
should not collect in Battle Creek to receive their education, has in no
particular changed. The fact that the sanitarium has been rebuilt does
not change the light. That which in the past has made Battle Creek