Messages to Young People is Ellen G. White's classic compilation of counsel written especially for youth. Warm, direct, and challenging, it speaks to the real questions young people face -- about character, temptation, career, faith, friendships, courtship, and how to live for God in the world. Ellen White began her own ministry at just seventeen, and throughout her life she carried a deep burden for young people, offering them instruction, sympathy, reproof, and encouragement in equal measure. This book gathers that counsel into one place, calling youth to a life of purity, purpose, and service, and assuring them that with an army of rightly trained young workers, the gospel could soon be carried to the whole world.

This volume was prepared to give Adventist youth a balanced, accessible collection of Ellen White's counsel drawn from her articles, letters, and books. It grew out of her lifelong concern for young people and her vision -- expressed in the 1890s -- of organizing youth into bands and societies for service, a vision that led to the founding of the Missionary Volunteer movement. The book was designed to strengthen young people in building Christian character and to inspire them to give their lives to the finishing of God's work.

Teenagers, young adults, and those who work with youth -- parents, youth leaders, teachers, and pastors. Its candid chapters on reading, music, dress, recreation, social life, courtship, and marriage make it a practical guide for young Christians navigating a modern world, and a valuable resource for anyone studying Adventist counsel on youth and family life.

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Messages to Young People is organized into fifteen sections addressing the whole of a young person's life. The sections are listed below. The complete chapter-by-chapter text is available free at the read link.