I was then shown a young girl of the same place, who had departed from God and was enshrouded in darkness. Said the angel: “She did run well for a season; what did hinder her?” I was pointed back and saw that it was a change of surroundings. She was associating with youth like herself, who were filled with hilarity and glee, pride, and love of the world. Had she regarded the words of Christ, she need not have yielded to the enemy. Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” Temptation may be all around us, but this does not make it necessary that we should enter into temptation. The truth is worth everything. Its influence tends not to degrade, but to elevate, refine, purify, and exalt to immortality and the throne of God. Said the angel: “Will ye have Christ, or the world?” Satan presents the world with its most alluring, flattering charms to poor mortals, and they gaze upon it, and its glitter and tinsel eclipse the glory of heaven and that life which is as enduring as the throne of God. A life of peace, happiness, joy unspeakable, which shall know nothing of sorrow, sadness, pain, nor death, is sacrificed for a short lifetime of sin. All who will turn from the pleasures of earth, and with Moses choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of the world, will, with faithful Moses, receive the unfading crown of immortality and the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. {2T 100.1}

Jeg fik vist en ung pige fra det samme sted, som havde forladt Gud og var indhyllet i mørke. Englen sagde: "Det gik godt for hende i en stund; men hvad hindrede hende?" Jeg blev vist tilbage og så at det var en omskiftning af omgivelser. Hun var sammen med unge som hende selv, som var fyldt med løssluppen munterhed og verdens lystighed, stolthed og kærlighed. Havde (101) hun lagt mærke til Kristi ord, behøvede hun ikke at overgive sig til fjenden. »Våg og bed, for, at I ikke skal falde i fristelse!« Fristelser kan være overalt omkring os, men denne nødvendiggør ikke at vi skal falde i fristelse. Sandheden er alt værd. Dens indflydelse sigter ikke mod fornedrelse, men mod opløftning, lutring, renselse og fører til udødelighed og Guds trone. Englen sagde: "Vil I have Kristus eller verden?" Satan fremstiller verden i dens mest tiltrækkende smigrende charme for de stakkels mennesker og de stirrer på det og dens glimmer og flitterstads fordunkler himlens herlighed og det liv som er ligeså varigt som Guds trone. Et liv i fred, lykke, usigelig glæde, som intet kender til sorg, smerte eller død, ofres for en kort livstid i synd. Alle som vender sig fra jordens fornøjelser og sammen med Moses hellere vælger pine med Guds folk end at nyde syndens fornøjelser for en stund, påskønner større rigdomme i Kristi skam end i verdens skatte, vil, sammen med den trofaste Moses, få den ufordærvelige udødelighedskrone og den langt mere betydelige og evige æresvægt.