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Amusements Bring A Flood Of Temptations

Our reading today begins on page 54 of Christ’s Object Lessons.

“Even the church, which should be the pillar and ground of the truth, is found encouraging the selfish love of pleasure. When money is to be raised for religious purposes, to what means do many churches resort? – To bazaars, suppers, fancy fairs, even to lotteries, and like devices. Often the place set apart for God’s worship is desecrated by feasting and drinking, buying, selling, and merry-making…. The pursuit of pleasure and amusement centers in the cities. Many parents who choose a city home for their children, thinking to give them greater advantages, meet with disappointment, and too late repent their terrible mistake. The cities of to-day are fast becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah…. The youth are swept away by the popular current. Those who learn to love amusement for its own sake, open the door to a flood of temptations…. They are led on from one form of dissipation to another, until they lose both the desire and the capacity for a life of usefulness.”

Let us now pray for both the parents and the children, for the Church herself at her lowest ebb is encouraging worldliness by her unholy methods of raising money; God’s house is desecrated, and the cities are become like Sodom and Gomorrah. Let us pray that we as parents and guardians will keep close to the Master and seek Divine aid in bringing up the children in God’s own order, for their very salvation is at stake.

Copyright 1948

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V. T. Houteff

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