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Youth and the Future
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of food that are known to be unwholesome. Nothing that will serve
to encourage a desire for stimulants should be placed on the table. I
appeal to all to refuse to eat those things that will injure the health.
Thus they can serve the Lord by sacrifice.—
Counsels to Parents,
Teachers, and Students, 297
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Assert Your Manly Liberty
—Young men, who think that you
cannot eat the simple wholesome food provided at the Health Insti-
tute and that you must go down to the restaurant and get something
to gratify your appetite, it is time for you to arouse and assert your
manly liberty.—
Manuscript 3, 1888
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Enter Not Into Temptation
—Will you allow temporal, earthly
employment to lead you into temptation? Will you doubt your Lord,
who loves you? Will you neglect the work given you, of doing
service for God? Your associations are with a class who are earthly,
sensual, and devilish. You have breathed moral malaria, and you are
in serious danger of failing where you might win if you would place
yourself in right relation with Jesus, making His life and character
your criterion. Now, in order to escape the corruption that is in the
world through lust, you must be a partaker of the divine nature. It is
your duty to keep your soul in the atmosphere of heaven.
You should not place yourself where you will be corrupted by
dissolute companionship. As one who loves your soul I beseech
you to shun, as far as possible, the company of the profligate, the
licentious, and the ungodly. Pray, “Lead us not into temptation,”
that is, “Do not, O Lord, suffer us to be overcome when assailed by
temptation.” Watch and pray lest ye enter into temptation. There is a
difference between being tempted, and entering into temptation.—
Letter 8, 1893
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Jesus Social and Temperate
—Jesus rebuked intemperance,
self-indulgence, and folly; yet He was social in His nature. He
accepted invitations to dine with the learned and noble, as well as
the poor and afflicted. On these occasions, His conversation was
elevating and instructive, holding His hearers entranced. He gave no
license to scenes of dissipation and revelry, yet innocent happiness
was pleasing to Him. A Jewish marriage was a solemn and impres-
sive occasion, the pleasure and joy of which were not displeasing to
the Son of man.—
Redemption; or the Miracles of Jesus, pages 13,
14
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