Chapter 13—The Influence of Christian Women
You may be dignified without vain self-confidence; you may be
condescending and yielding without sacrificing self-respect or
individual independence, and your life may be of great influence with
those in the higher as well as the lower walks of life.—
Testimonies for
the Church 3:506
Wonderful Mission of Women—Seventh-day Adventists are not
in any way to belittle woman’s work.—
Gospel Workers, 453
(1898).
Wonderful is the mission of the wives and mothers and the younger
women workers. If they will, they can exert an influence for good to
all around them. By modesty in dress and circumspect deportment
they may bear witness to the truth in its simplicity. They may let
their light so shine before all that others will see their good works
and glorify their Father which is in heaven. A truly converted woman
will exert a powerful, transforming influence for good. Connected
with her husband, she may aid him in his work and become the means
of encouragement and blessing to him. When the will and way are
brought into subjection to the Spirit of God, there is no limit to the
good that can be accomplished.—
Welfare Ministry, 157 (1908)
.
Abstain From Appearance of Evil—There are those who do not
feel that it is a religious duty to discipline the mind to dwell upon
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cheerful subjects, that they may reflect light rather than darkness and
gloom. This class of minds will either be engaged in seeking their own
pleasure, in frivolous conversation, laughing and joking, keeping the
mind continually elated with a round of amusements; or they will be
depressed, having great trials and mental conflicts, which they think
but few have ever experienced or can understand. These persons may
profess Christianity, but they deceive their own souls. They have not
the genuine article. The religion of Jesus Christ is first pure, then
peaceable, full of righteousness and good fruits. Many have fallen into
the sad error which is so prevalent in this degenerate age, especially
with females. They are too fond of the other sex. They love their
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