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them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye
shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”
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Will our youth heed this voice of invitation? How little do our
young people realize the necessity of setting before their youthful
associates a Christlike example in their life and character. Many of our
youth understand the theory of the truth, but how few understand by
experimental knowledge the practical bearing of the truth upon their
every action. Where are youthful missionaries doing any work that
presents itself to them in the great harvest field? Where are those who
are daily learners in the school of Christ? Let them never feel that they
are prepared to graduate. Let them wait in the courts of the Lord, that
they may be directed as to how to work in unison with the heavenly
intelligences. Dear youth, I wish to speak decidedly to you because I
want you to be saved. Lose no more time. You cannot serve God and
mammon. You may apparently be Christians, but when temptations
come, when sorely tried, do you not generally yield?
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The conflict in which you have to take an active part is found in
your everyday life. Will you not in times of trial lay your desires by the
side of the written word, and in earnest prayer seek Jesus for counsel?
Many declare that it is certainly no harm to go to a concert and neglect
the prayer-meeting, or absent themselves from meetings where God’s
servants are to declare a message from heaven. It is safe for you to be
just where Christ has said He would be.
Those who appreciate the words of Christ will not turn aside from
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the prayer meeting, or from the meeting where the Lord’s messenger
has been sent to tell them concerning things of eternal interest. Jesus
has said, “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there
am I in the midst of them.” Can you afford to choose your pleasure
and miss the blessing? It is indulgence in these things that has a telling
influence not only on your own life and character, but upon the life
and character of your associates.
If all who profess to be followers of Christ would be so in deed
and in truth, they would have the mind of Christ, and would work the
works of God. They would resist temptation to indulge self, and would