A Word of Warning

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1864

A Word of Warning.

If females were disciplined, trained on the gospel plan, adorned in modest apparel, guided in life's golden path, seldom if ever would our ears be pained with heart-rending recitals of fallen virtue! Here lies the fault, the guilt, the murder! Mothers suffer little ones to sport on destruction's brink, to carry coals of fire in their bosoms. In early infancy, pride is fostered; they are tipped off in fine clothing, flirt about in gay and fashionable costume, trinkets and gew-gaws; mingle with the giddy; attend parties of pleasure—the dance, the nightly concert and revel, and are gallanted by unprincipled, licentious young men. These are stepping-stones to disgrace and ruin. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

Beware, "lest thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy soul are consumed, and say, How have I hated destruction, and my heart despised reproof."