A Time of Trial Before the Young
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- Chapter 4—Innocent Pleasures for the Youth
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- Chapter 6—Firmness in Resisting Temptation
- Chapter 7—How to Spend Holidays
- Chapter 8—Symmetrical Education
- Chapter 9—Christian Recreation
- Chapter 10—The Dignity of Labor
- Chapter 11—Manual Training
- Chapter 12—Manual Labor
- Chapter 13—Duties and Dangers of the Youth
- Chapter 14—Joy in Christianity
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- Chapter 18—Employment for Patients
- Chapter 19—Physical Exercise as a Remedial Agency
- Chapter 20—Physical Labor an Aid to Recovery
- Chapter 21—Substitutes for Amusements
- Chapter 22—Separate from the World
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A Time of Trial Before the Young
Young Sabbath-keepers who have yielded to the influence of the world, will have to be tested and proved. The perils of the last days are upon us, and a trial is before the young which many have not anticipated. They will be brought into distressing perplexity, and the genuineness of their faith will be proved. They profess to be looking for the Son of man; yet some of them have been a miserable example to unbelievers. They have not been willing to give up the world, but have united with the world in attending picnics and other gatherings for pleasure, flattering themselves that they were engaging in innocent amusement. Yet it is just such indulgences that separate them from God, and make them children of the world.PH145 9.2
Some are constantly leaning to the world. Their views and feelings harmonize much better with the spirit of the world than with that of Christ's self-denying followers. It is perfectly natural that they should prefer the company of those whose spirit will best agree with their own. And such have quite too much influence among God's people. They take part with them, and have a name among them; and they are a text for unbelievers, and for the weak and unconsecrated ones in the church. In this refining time these professors will either be wholly converted, and sanctified by obedience to the truth, or they will be left with the world, to receive their reward with the worldlings.PH145 9.3
God does not own the pleasure-seeker as His follower. Those only who are self-denying, and who live lives of sobriety, humility, and holiness, are true followers of Jesus. And such cannot enjoy the frivolous, empty conversation of the lover of the world.PH145 10.1