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I Must Caution You…

(Excerpt from a letter of Legh Richmond to one of his children)

“Take care of too frequent interaction with the world. I write with a heart full of love--but I must caution you. There is nothing more dangerous to young Christians, than indiscriminate interaction with the ungodly. In such society--it is far more likely that we would receive evil, than impart good. Prudence and prayer are then especially needful; for we may more easily conform to the world--than bring the world to conform to us. Happy are those who have the least to do with it, except in the way of absolute duty and necessity.”

--Even though this is written to a child, I think we all Christians need to hear this sort of thing once in a while.   CQ
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