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Maintaining a High Moral Standard
Abandonment of Principle Marks the Times—Everywhere are
seen wrecks of humanity, broken-down family altars, ruined homes.
There is a strange abandonment of principle, the standard of morality
is lowered, and the earth is fast becoming a Sodom. The practices
which brought the judgment of God upon the antediluvian world, and
which caused Sodom to be destroyed by fire, are fast increasing. We
are nearing the end, when the earth is to be purified by fire.—
Gospel
Workers, 125, 126
(1915).
Ministers Satan’s Target—Satan’s special temptations are di-
rected against the ministry. He knows that ministers are but human,
possessing no grace or holiness of their own; that the treasures of
the gospel have been placed in earthen vessels, which divine power
alone can make vessels unto honor. He knows that God has ordained
ministers to be a powerful means for the salvation of souls, and that
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they can be successful in their work only as they allow the eternal
Father to rule their lives. Therefore he tries with all his ingenuity
to lead them into sin, knowing that their office makes sin in them
more exceeding sinful; for in committing sin, they make themselves
ministers of evil.—
Gospel Workers, 124
(1915).
Balanced Dignity and Sociability—The subject of purity and
propriety of deportment is one to which we must give heed. We must
guard against the sins of this degenerate age. Let not Christ’s ambas-
sadors descend to trifling conversation, to familiarity with women,
married or single. Let them keep their proper place with becoming dig-
nity; yet at the same time they may be sociable, kind, and courteous to
all. They must stand aloof from everything that savors of commonness
and familiarity. This is forbidden ground, upon which it is unsafe to
set the feet. Every word, every act, should tend to elevate, to refine, to
ennoble. There is sin in thoughtlessness about such matters.—
Gospel
Workers, 125
(1915).
Rebuke Flattery of Women—You will sometimes be flattered by
men, but more frequently by women. Especially when you present
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