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Petting and Premarital Sex
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Your acts and conversation are offensive to God. The angels of
God bear record of your words and your actions. The light has been
given you but you have not heeded it. The course you have pursued
is a reproach to the cause of God. Your behavior is unbecoming and
unchristian. When you should both be in your beds you have been
in one another’s society and in one another’s arms nearly the entire
night.... You give occasion to our enemies to judge our people as being
loose in morals.—
Letter 3, 1879
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Violation of the Seventh Commandment—You were shown me
in her [Mattie’s] society hours of the night; you know best in what
manner these hours were spent. You called on me to speak whether
you had broken God’s commandments. I ask you, Have you not broken
them? How was your time employed hours together night after night?
Were your position, your attitude, your affections such that you would
want them all registered in the ledger of heaven? I saw, I heard, things
that would make angels blush.... No young man should do as you have
done to Mattie unless married to her; and I was much surprised to see
that you did not sense this matter more keenly....
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Will you now change entirely, cut the last connection with Mattie?
Will she do this on her part? If neither of you will do this, marry her at
once and disgrace yourselves and the cause of God no more.—
Letter
61, 1880
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