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Daughters of God
can enter families to which ministers could find no access. They can
listen to the sorrows of the depressed and oppressed. They can shed
rays of light into discouraged souls. They can pray with them. They
can open the Scriptures, and enlighten them from a “Thus saith the
Lord.”—
Manuscript Releases 5:327 (1898)
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Women to Be Educated to Help Other Women—If we can ar-
range to have regular, organized companies instructed intelligently
in regard to the part they should act as servants of the Master, our
churches will have a life and vitality that they have long needed. I
have so longed for women who could be educated to help our sisters
rise from their discouragement and feel that they could do a work for
the Lord. This is bringing rays of sunshine into their own lives, which
are reflected into the hearts of others. God will bless you and all who
unite with you in this grand work.—
Welfare Ministry, 144 (1899)
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Seek Out Those Who Are Lonely
Natural to Seek Companionship—Everyone will find compan-
ions or make them. And just in proportion to the strength of the
friendship will be the amount of influence which friends will exert
over one another for good or for evil. All will have associates, and will
influence and be influenced in their turn.
The link is a mysterious one which binds human hearts together, so
that the feelings, tastes, and principles of two individuals are closely
blended. One catches the spirit, and copies the ways and acts, of
the other. As wax retains the figure of the seal, so the mind retains
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the impression produced by [communication] and association. The
influence may be unconscious, yet it is no less powerful.—
Testimonies
for the Church 4:587 (1881)
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The Need for Association—Many might be kept from sinful in-
fluences if they were surrounded with good associations and had words
of kindness and love spoken to them.—
Testimonies for the Church
4:364 (1879)
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Strength for Your Day—Angels, who will do for you what you
cannot do for yourselves, are waiting for your cooperation. They are
waiting for you to respond to the drawing of Christ. Draw nigh to
God and to one another. By desire, by silent prayer, by resistance of
satanic agencies, put your will on the side of God’s will. While you