A FEW WORDS TO THE YOUNG.
By A. G.
I HAVE been thinking of the state of the young among us who profess to believe the third angel's message, and to be getting ready for the Lord's coming. How few among us who are living out the principles of the gospel; the principles of our "holy religion!" There seems to be a great lack of consecration. I see but little difference between them and those who do not profess the truth. Indeed, the similarity is such, that I have heard the remark from the wicked, that they did not wish any better company than such and such a Sabbath-keeper. Of what honor is that individual to the cause of God? Did the young realize the weight of responsibility that rests upon them—what God requires of those in the morning of life, while the pressing134cares of those who are older are unknown to them, they would be whole-hearted in the cause they profess to love. While some are loitering about with their former associates in the streets or stores, or spending their time, which is only lent them, in reading forbidden works; others are busily employed with useless embroidery and trimmings on their clothes, and for what? Oh, to look like the world around them. It reminds one of the Israelites that left Egypt, but still longed for the "leeks and onions" they had left behind. Is it true that we have left the world and still wish to carry it all along with us? Where is our dying to the world, our coming out and being separate? How long will ye stand in the way of sinners? How long live at the halves, while the judgments of God are just before us, and his wrath to be poured upon the heads of the ungodly. O let us be zealous and repent of all our wrongs and get into the work of God, make straight paths for our feet, that the lame be not turned out of the way, and we find an abundant entrance into the kingdom so dearly purchased for us. Yours trying to overcome,
A. G.