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to reach the loftiest heights of achievement by doing something great
and wonderful, will fail of doing anything.
Steady progress in a good work, the frequent repetition of one kind
of faithful service, is of more value in God’s sight than the doing of
one great work, and wins for the youth a good report, giving character
to their efforts....
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The youth can do good in laboring to save souls. God holds them
accountable for the use they make of the talents intrusted to them.
Let those who claim to be sons and daughters of God aim at a high
standard. Let them use every faculty God has given them.—
The
Youth’s Instructor, January 1, 1907
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Unsatisfied Longings
The continual craving for pleasurable amusements reveals the deep
longings of the soul. But those who drink at this fountain of worldly
pleasure will find their soul-thirst still unsatisfied. They are deceived;
they mistake mirth for happiness; and when the excitement ceases
many sink down into the depths of despondency and despair. O what
madness, what folly, to forsake the “Fountain of living waters” for the
“broken cisterns” of worldly pleasure!—
Fundamentals of Christian
Education, 422
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Opportunities for Witnessing
If you truly belong to Christ, you will have opportunities for wit-
nessing for Him. You will be invited to attend places of amusement,
and then it will be that you will have an opportunity to testify to your
Lord. If you are true to Christ then, you will not try to form excuses
for your non-attendance, but will plainly and modestly declare that
you are a child of God, and your principles would not allow you to
be in a place, even for one occasion, where you could not invite the
presence of your Lord.—
The Youth’s Instructor, May 4, 1893
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