0172. Rebekah Was Virtuous

Rebekah Was Virtuous

"And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin" (Gen_24:16).

The most priceless jewel that a girl has is her virtue. "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies."

We would not for a moment suppose that the dear girls who read these paragraphs would for a moment stoop to vice and shame. We write about higher things, loftier ideals.

That of which our daughters need to fear is not so much the bottom of the hill, but avoiding the slope. No girl will ever land at the foot of the toboggan slide if she stays clear of the approach to the toboggan.

It is all necessary to avoid the every appearance of evil. The seed that harvests immorality is the unchaste story, the unclean theater, the unwholesome movie, the unholy dance. No girl can yield to any of these attractions, fashioned as they are to appeal to the flesh, without being harmed thereby.

Another place for caution, lies in the company that the girl keeps. Many of the young men are given to low ideals; they are a menace to every girl who would stand unsmirched in the glorious beauty of her virtue. Boys who are separated unto God, and filled with the Spirit may alone be fully trusted.

Others, than the Spirit-filled youth, may be clean, and morally true: but the saved of either sex, should not have fellowship with the unsaved. "What fellowship hath light with darkness?" "What part hath he that believeth with an unbeliever?" God’s Word is: "Be ye separate."

It is almost impossible for any youth who does not know God to live free from stain of some kind; and certainly a youth who does not know God, no matter how morally clean, is not a worthy companion for one who has Christ’s ideals of things down here.

The girl who keeps company with the lad who smokes cigarettes, and who attends the movies, and who dances, and who holds generally to worldly ideals and ambitions is to be pitied. No one can touch the fire and not be burned.

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness."

"I asked the roses, as they grew

Richer and lovelier in their hue,

What made their tints so rich and bright?

They answered, ‘Looking toward the light.’

Ah, secret, dear, said heart of mine,

God meant my life to be like thine–

Radiant with Heavenly beauty bright;

By simply looking toward the Light."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR