Young men attend our college who, unsuspected by parents or guardians, hang about saloons, drink beer, and play cards and games in billiard halls. These things the students try to keep a profound secret among themselves; and professors and teachers are kept in ignorance of the satanic work going on. When this young man is enticed to pursue some evil course which must be kept secret, he has a battle with conscience; but inclination triumphs. He meant to be a Christian when he came to Battle Creek, but he is led steadily and surely in the downward road. Evil companions and seducers found among the youth of Sabbathkeeping parents, some of them living in Battle Creek, find that he can be tempted; and they secretly exult in their power and the fact that he is weak and will yield so readily to their seductive influences. They find that he can be shamed and confused by those who have had light and who have hardened their hearts in sin. Just such influences as these will be found wherever youth associate together. {4T 436.1}

Unge mænd på vort college hænger, uanende af forældre eller formyndere, på barer, drikker øl og spiller kort og spil i billardhaller. Disse ting prøver de studerende at hemmeligholde meget blandt dem selv; og professorerne og lærere holdes i uvidenhed om det sataniske arbejde, som sker. Når denne unge mand lokkes til at gøre noget forkert, som skal hemmeligholdes, har han en kamp med sin samvittighed; men tilbøjeligheden sejrer. Det skulle betyde at han var en kristen, da han kom til Battle Creek, men han ledes fast og sikkert hen på den nedadgående vej. Onde kammerater og forførere findes blandt unge sabbatsholdene forældre, nogle af dem bor i Battle Creek og de finder ud af at han kan fristes; og de jubler i det skjulte over deres magt og den kendsgerning at han er svag og så hurtig giver efter for deres forføreriske indflydelse. De finder ud af at han kan komme til skamme og forvirres af dem, som har haft lyset og som har forhærdet deres hjerter i synd. Netop sådanne anstød som disse vil man finde overalt, hvor unge samles.