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         Messages to Young People
      
      
        Light has been given me, again and again, that all our gatherings
      
      
        should be characterized by a decided religious influence. If our young
      
      
        people would assemble to read and understand the Scriptures, asking,
      
      
        “What shall I do that I may have eternal life?” and then place them-
      
      
        selves unitedly upon the side of truth, the Lord Jesus would let His
      
      
        blessing come into their hearts.
      
      
        O that every church-member, every worker in our institutions,
      
      
        might realize that this life is a school in which to prepare for examina-
      
      
        tion by the God of heaven, with regard to purity, cleanness of thought,
      
      
        unselfishness of action! Every word and act, every thought, is recorded
      
      
        on the record books of heaven....
      
      
        It is through the power and prevalence of truth that we must be
      
      
        sanctified, and elevated to the true dignity of the standard set forth in
      
      
        the word. The way of the Lord can be learned only through most care-
      
      
        ful obedience to His word. Study the word.—
      
      
        The Youth’s Instructor,
      
      
        August 14, 1906
      
      
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