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Medical Ministry
sentimentalism. For this reason rules and regulations are highly
essential to guard those connected with the sanitarium, the college,
and the office of publication; and anyone who regards these restric-
tions as unnecessary has not spiritual discernment, and will prove a
hindrance rather than a help....
The Sin of the Age
Sensuality is the sin of the age. But the religion of Jesus Christ
will hold the lines of control over every species of unlawful liberty;
the moral powers will hold the lines of control over every thought,
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word, and action. Guile will not be found in the lips of the true
Christian. Not an impure thought will be indulged in, not a word
spoken that is approaching to sensuality, not an action that has the
least appearance of evil.
The senses will be guarded. The soul that has Jesus abiding in it
will develop into true greatness. The intelligent soul who has respect
unto all of God’s commandments, through the grace of Christ, will
say to the passions of the heart as he points to God’s great moral
standard of righteousness, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further:
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,” and the grace of Christ
shall be as a wall of fire round about the soul.
There are those who will say, “Oh, you need not be so particular.
A little harmless flirtation will do no injury.” And the carnal heart
urges on to temptation, and to the practical sanctioning of indul-
gences which end in sin. This is a low cast of morality, not meeting
the high standard of the law of God.
The vileness of the human heart is not understood. There are
always individuals connected with our institutions whose characters
are cast in an inferior mold, and they need but a word of encour-
agement from those in higher positions to take liberty to gratify the
unholy heart. There are those at the sanitarium that are not open sin-
ners; they hide their sins from human eyes; they have a fair outward
morality; but the Lord’s eye sees them. They find means to gratify
the low sensual propensities; their lives are tarnished, and they are
tarnishing others by their example....