WHAT I HAVE SEEN | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

WHAT I HAVE SEEN.

I have seen a young man sell a good farm, turn merchant, and die in an insane asylum.

I have seen a farmer travel about so much that there was nothing at home worth looking after.

I have seen a man spend more money in folly than would support his family in comfort and independence.

I have seen a young girl marry a young man of dissolute habits, and repent it as long as she lived.

I have seen a man depart from truth when candor and veracity would have served him to a much better purpose.

I have seen extravagance and folly of children bring their parents to poverty and want, and themselves to disgrace.

I have seen a prudent and industrious wife retrieve the fortunes of a family, when her husband pulled at the other end of the rope.

I have seen a young man who despised the counsel of the wise and the advice of the good, and his career was in poverty and wretchedness.