We desire to draw attention particularly to question 2 of April, feeling the importance of the answer as given to us in 1 Cor. 6:14-18.
There we find positive instruction to Christians, young and old, not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. When Christ is the object before our souls, and we are enjoying His love, thinking of all that He has done for us, we delight to speak of Him. His character as man while He was here on earth fills our souls, so that we may say, "O, Lord, make me more like Thyself!" It was His delight to do the will of Him that sent Him. "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." (Psa. 40:8.) is it the desire of our hearts to please Him who so loves us; to be like Him in all our ways? If so, it will be an easy matter to obey such a Scripture as we have before us, and the result will be praise to Him, happiness in our own souls, and we will be preserved from much sorrow that many have had to pass through who have disobeyed it. Read the article "Unscriptural Marriage" in Vol. II. We could relate many such cases, but may that suffice as a warning, to preserve all our young friends from such a step, or an unequal yoke in any connection.
The first wrong step in that line is a lack of enjoying the Lord in the soul; then comes unfaithfulness to Him, and instead of speaking about Him to the unsaved acquaintances, there is the dropping down to their level, and joining in with them in their conversation.