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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 3.

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FLIRTING

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Even in the eyes of the world, it has always been considered a contemptible thing for persons to engage in flirting. The young man or young woman who will engage in such conduct is always looked upon with contempt. It is not only mean, but it is absolutely wicked. How many hearts are broken and lives blasted by this miserable conduct.
A young man shows special regard for a young lady. He seeks her company, waits upon her, writes letters to her, makes her presents, and perhaps gives her to understand that he has special affection for her. But all the time he does it lightly, only for his own amusement. At length he breaks it all off, and abandons her for some other one; but she has set her heart upon him, given him the best affections of her soul. Now her heart is broken. A shadow has come over her life. She may be convinced that the young man is utterly unworthy of her, but it does not help the case. Nothing can repair the wrong that has been done her. If you had stolen every dollar she had, and turned her into the street penniless, the wrong would have been infinitely less.
The wickedness of the thing is just as great if the shoe comes on the other foot. How, then, can young men or women who fear God lend themselves to such unchristian conduct?
D. M. CANRIGHT.