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Section 11—The Sanitarium Family
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souls are to find a haven. Those connected with these institutions
are to take heed to themselves. Never, by word or action, are they to
give the least occasion for wicked men to speak evil of the truth.
Not of the World
There are only two kingdoms in this world, the kingdom of
Christ and the kingdom of Satan. To one of these kingdoms each
one of us must belong. In His wonderful prayer for His disciples
Christ said, “I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not
of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through
Thy truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou hast sent Me into the world,
even so have I also sent them into the world.”
It is not God’s will that we should seclude ourselves from the
world. But while in the world we should sanctify ourselves to God.
We should not pattern after the world. We are to be in the world
as a corrective influence, as salt that retains its savor. Among an
unholy, impure, idolatrous generation we are to be pure and holy,
showing that the grace of Christ has power to restore in man the
divine likeness. We are to exert a saving influence upon the world.
“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
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The world has become a lazar house of sin, a mass of corruption. It
knows not the children of God because it knows Him not. We are
not to practice its ways or follow its customs. Continually we must
resist its lax principles. Christ said to His followers, “Let your light
so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven.” It is the duty of physicians and
nurses to shine as lights amid the corrupting influences of the world.
They are to cherish principles which the world cannot tarnish....
The blessing of grace is given to men that the heavenly universe
and the fallen world may see, as they could not otherwise, the per-
fection of Christ’s character. The Great Physician came to our world
to show men and women that through His grace they may so live
that in the great day of God they can receive the precious testimony,
“Ye are complete in Him.”—
Manuscript 24, 1900.
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