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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
of reform in our characters if we will give them place. They will
prepare us for entrance into the city of God. It is our privilege to
make continual advancement to a higher grade of Christian living.
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Loma Linda
One night I was awakened and instructed to write a straight
testimony regarding the work of our school at Loma Linda. By that
school a solemn, sacred work is to be done. The teachings of health
reform are to stand out clearly and brightly, that all the youth in
attendance may learn to practice them. All our educators should be
strict health reformers.
The Lord desires that genuine missionaries shall go out as pio-
neers from our schools. They are to be fully consecrated to the work
as laborers together with God daily enlarging their sphere of useful-
ness. The influence of a consecrated medical missionary teacher in
our schools is invaluable.
We need to be converted from our faulty lives to the faith of the
Gospel. Christ’s followers have no need to try to shine. If they will
behold constantly the life of Christ they will be changed in mind
and heart into the same image. Then they will shine without any
superficial attempt. The Lord asks for no display of goodness. In
the gift of His Son He has made provision that our inward lives
may be imbued with the principles of heaven. It is the appropriation
of this provision that will lead to a manifestation of Christ to the
world. When the people of God experience the new birth, their
honesty, their uprightness, their fidelity, their steadfast principles,
will unfailingly reveal it.
Oh, what words were spoken to me! What gentleness was rec-
ommended through the grace abundantly given! The greatest man-
ifestation that men and women can make of the grace and power
of Christ is made when the natural man becomes a partaker of the
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divine nature, and through the power that the grace of Christ imparts,
overcomes the corruption that is in the world through lust.
May 17, 1908.
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