The Hidden Side | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1883

The Hidden Side.

It is one of the happiest things for man that nature is on the side of virtue, that those who live the most virtuous lives and who take the best care to preserve the purity of their bodies and their minds have the greatest happiness in life. If the young men and young women of to-day could only be taught fully to realize this great fact, we venture to think that nine out of every ten of them, who otherwise would go wrong, would be restrained.

This great truth ought to be dinned into their understandings with repeated emphasis, and illustrated by hard, practical facts from every-day life, and not merely left to the effect of a few moral maxims. They see no ill consequences flowing from vice and dissipation. These are carefully screened from view; and few quote these consequences as a warning. It is in our jails, our penitentiaries, our lock-hospitals, our lunatic-asylums, and our work-houses that the fruits of early dissipation are to be found.—Selected.