Saturday, October 16, 2021

SDA Issues- "Frivolous ditty" of our School Events

 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play
Exodus 32:6
 Eternal things have little weight with the youth. Angels of God are in tears as they write in the roll the words and acts of professed Christians. Angels are hovering around yonder dwelling. The young are there assembled; there is the sound of vocal and instrumental music. Christians are gathered there, but what is that you hear? It is a song, a frivolous ditty, fit for the dance hall. Behold the pure angels gather their light closer around them, and darkness envelops those in that dwelling. The angels are moving from the scene. Sadness is upon their countenances. Behold, they are weeping. This I saw repeated a number of times all through the ranks of Sabbathkeepers, and especially in —–.”  (Testimonies, Vol. 1, p. 505).
 
 "Khunti Seventh-day Adventist Senior Secondary School is an institution located in eastern India.....celebrated a “Teacher’s Day” last month in September 2021. The day started out with celebrating the school’s administrators and teachers, but then ended with
confusion, blaring secular music and wild dancing. It was the same kind of revelry and party atmosphere that you see in a worldly dance club; but this didn’t take place in a nightclub, it took place on the campus of a Seventh-day Adventist institution.
You can’t put all the blame on the young people. School officials are also responsible. They allow this, they tolerate it and if they provided the sound system or gave permission for this then they are encouraging this type of behavior." AdventMessenger