The young ladies connected with our institutions should keep a strict guard over themselves. In word and action they should be reserved. Never when speaking to a married man should they show the slightest freedom. To my sisters who are connected with our sanitariums I would say, Gird on the armor. When talking to men, be kind and courteous, but never free. Observant eyes are upon you, watching your conduct, judging by it whether you are indeed children of God. Be modest. Abstain from every appearance of evil. Keep on the heavenly armor, or else for Christ’s sake sever your connection with the sanitarium, the place where poor, shipwrecked souls are to find a haven. Those connected with these institutions are to take heed to themselves. Never, by word or action, are they to give the least occasion for wicked men to speak evil of the truth.
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There are only two kingdoms in this world, the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Satan. To one of these kingdoms each one of us must belong. In His wonderful prayer for His disciples Christ said, “I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.”John 17:15~18.
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It is not God’s will that we should seclude ourselves from the world. But while in the world we should sanctify ourselves to God. We should not pattern after the world. We are to be in the world as a corrective influence, as salt that retains its savor. Among an unholy, impure, idolatrous generation we are to be pure and holy, showing that the grace of Christ has power to restore in man the divine likeness. We are to exert a saving influence upon the world.
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“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”1 John 5:4. The world has become a lazar house of sin, a mass of corruption. It knows not the children of God because it knows Him not. We are not to practice its ways or follow its customs. Continually we must resist its lax principles. Christ said to His followers, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”Matthew 5:16. It is the duty of physicians and nurses to shine as lights amid the corrupting influences of the world. They are to cherish principles which the world cannot tarnish ∙∙∙ .
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The blessing of grace is given to men that the heavenly universe and the fallen world may see, as they could not otherwise, the perfection of Christ’s character. The Great Physician came to our world to show men and women that through His grace they may so live that in the great day of God they can receive the precious testimony, “Ye are complete in Him.”Colossians 2:10. — Manuscript 24, 1900.
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For Further Study Successful Institutional Work: Counsels on Health, 255-320 (Testimonies for the Church 4:586, 587). High Calling of Sanitarium Workers: Counsels on Health, 250-254 (Testimonies for the Church 7:68-71). Duties and Privileges of Sanitarium Workers: Counsels on Health, 398-411, 420-424. Faithfulness Among Workers: Testimonies for the Church 4:554-564. Christian Influence: Testimonies for the Church 4:565-570. Moral and Intellectual Culture of Workers: Counsels on Health, 257-260 (Testimonies for the Church 4:454-459). Workers to Be Health Reformers: Counsels on Health, 261. The Choice of Associates: Counsels on Health, 414-419 (Testimonies for the Church 4:587-591). Sharing Responsibilities: Counsels on Health, 338, 339; Testimonies for the Church 8:231-235. Adherence to Principle: Counsels on Health, 287, 288 (Testimonies for the Church 4:576, 577). Cheerfulness: Counsels on Health, 406, 407 (The Ministry of Healing, 222-224). Criticism and Faultfinding: Counsels on Health, 296, 297. Frivolity and Criticism: Counsels on Health, 412, 413. Conscientious Attention to Little Things: Testimonies for the Church 4:572. Sabbath Observance in Sanitariums: Counsels on Health, 234-239 (Testimonies for the Church 7:104-109); Counsels on Health, 422. The Head Physician: Counsels on Health, 337-339. The Chaplain: Counsels on Health, 289 (Testimonies for the Church 4:546, 547.)
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