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No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.

Ellen G. White

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Ellen G. White
Age: 87 †
Born: 1827
Born: November 26
Died: 1915
Died: July 16
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