Disposition
193
or our trials severe.—
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students,
233
(1913).
Combining Sunniness and Integrity—The religion of Jesus soft-
ens whatever is hard and rough in the temper and smooths whatever
is rugged and sharp in the manners. It makes the words gentle and
the demeanor winning. Let us learn from Christ how to combine a
high sense of purity and integrity with sunniness of disposition. A
kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be
produced in favor of Christianity.—
Gospel Workers, 122
(1915).
Improper Eating Spoils the Disposition—Many spoil their dis-
positions by eating improperly. We should be just as careful to learn
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the lessons of health reform as we are to have our studies perfectly
prepared, for the habits that we adopt in this direction are helping to
form our characters for the future life. It is possible for one to spoil
his spiritual experience by an ill-usage of the stomach.—Lt 274, 1908
(
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 126
.)
Flesh Meats Produce an Irritable Disposition—God did not
withhold meat from the Hebrews in the wilderness simply to show
His authority, but for their good, that they might preserve physical and
moral strength. He knew that the use of animal food strengthens the
animal passions and enfeebles the intellect. He knew that the gratifi-
cation of the appetite of the Hebrews for flesh meats would weaken
their moral powers and induce such an irritable disposition that the
vast army would become insubordinate, that they would lose the high
sense of their moral obligations and refuse to be controlled by the wise
laws of Jehovah.—
Sanitarium Announcement, 6, 1876
. (
Temperance,
160
.)
Sugar and the Disposition—Sugar is not good for the stomach. It
causes fermentation, and this clouds the brain and brings peevishness
into the disposition.—MS 93, 1901. (
Counsels on Diet and Foods,
327
.)
Softening a Perverse Disposition—Advancement in Christian
experience is characterized by increasing humility, as the result of
increasing knowledge. Everyone who is united to Christ will depart
from all iniquity.
I tell you, in the fear of God, I have been shown that many of
you will fail of everlasting life because you are building your hopes
of heaven on a false foundation. God is leaving you to yourselves,