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A Warning to Our Young People

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 23, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 43.

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A Warning to Our Young People

By Editor

THE other day a letter was received from a woman who is the mother of three children. It was my privilege to know her some twelve years ago, when she was a happy, care-free girl of fifteen years. The lesson is good for both sexes, and is so plain that it needs no comment. Below are a few extracts:—
"O, I want to be nearer and nearer each day to God, but it seems that my cares and the indifference of my husband cause me to be negligent of my duty to God! The cares of my household would be nothing if I could only lean upon my husband to lead in spiritual things. But he is not converted, and while he does not oppose me, yet at times I feel crushed and withered spiritually because I cannot converse with him on subjects that are nearest and dearest to my heart; in other words, I cannot feel free in my spiritual life.
'Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers,' is God's admonition to us; and yet we are like Eve, we must disbelieve God's judgment, and taste the forbidden fruit, and like her also, we receive the recompense for our sins, and many are the lives that are blighted as the result. O that young people could realize the dangers of marriage with unbelievers!
"I feel more every day my need of my husband's help with my little ones. I am too weak to lead them alone. I pray that the time may be hastened when his heart may be made right with God, and that we in harmony may live for God and eternity."