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implanted within you desires for high and holy purposes; and it is not
necessary that these should be debased. This is so only when we refuse
to submit to the control of reason and conscience. We are to restrain
our passions and deny self.
Satan’s Pursuit of the Youth—The unsanctified mind fails to
receive the strength and comfort which God has provided for all who
will come to Him. There is an unrest, a burning desire for something
new, to gratify, to please and fascinate the mind, and this indulgence is
called pleasure. Satan has alluring charms with which to engage the
interest and excite the imagination of youth, and fasten them in his
snare. Do not build your character on the sand.—
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