The subject of my fellow Christian young people has been frequently on my mind of
late. I feel strongly that the young people today are falling increasingly into the subtlest
of the three characteristics of the world mentioned in 1 John 2:16_the "pride of life."
The increasing number of Christian youths who are able to attend college has increased
the opportunity for this pride to be manifested, I believe.

The colleges, stressing as they do sophistication, and constantly bombarding students
with statements of their (the youths’) importance, seem to be too great an influence for
many Christian youths who are not spiritually prepared for such self-glorifying
enticement of the devil.

Once the saints (and I think here especially of the young saints) have been drawn away
from full obedience to the Lord by pride and carelessness in feeding on His Word, they
are easy prey to the two other characteristics, of the world_the lust of the eyes and the
lust of the flesh.

Personally, I have nothing against a college education (I am a college student myself).
But it seems that the special temptations encountered while obtaining a higher education
are a major contributing factor to the apparent present low spiritual state among the
young in the Assembly.

I pray often that the attraction of this world will diminish in the eyes of all of us, His
precious redeemed ones, to be replaced by a fuller knowledge of Him and a greater
appreciation of His work and His Person.