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interests most vital to you individually are in your own keeping. No
one can damage them without your consent. All the satanic legions
cannot injure you unless you open your soul to the arts and arrows
of Satan. Your ruin can never take place until your will consents. If
there is not pollution of mind in yourself, all the surrounding pollution
cannot taint or defile you.—Lt 14, 1885. (HC 94.)
Control the Feelings—We rejoice in hope, not in feeling. In the
hope of the glory of God we know that tribulation worketh patience
and experience hope. What does it mean? If we do not feel just as
we want to, are we to fly into impatience, speaking those words that
show that we have the attributes of Satan? We cannot afford to speak a
harsh word or an unkind word, because we are standing right in view
of the heavenly intelligences and we are fighting the battle with all the
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heavenly universe looking upon us; and how we grieve the heart of
God when we deny Him in any way! The marks of the crucifixion in
the hands of Christ show that He has graven us upon the palms of His
hands.—MS 16, 1894.
Encouragement Restores Body and Soul—Tell the suffering
ones of a compassionate Saviour.... He looks with compassion upon
those who regard their case as hopeless. While the soul is filled with
fear and terror, the mind cannot see the tender compassion of Christ.
Our sanitariums are to be an agency for bringing peace and rest to the
troubled minds.
If you can inspire the despondent with hopeful, saving faith, con-
tentment and cheerfulness will take the place of discouragement and
unrest. Wonderful changes can then be wrought in their physical
condition. Christ will restore both body and soul, and realizing His
compassion and love, they will rest in Him. He is the bright and morn-
ing star, shining amid the moral darkness of this sinful, corrupt world.
He is the light of the world, and all who give their hearts to Him will
find peace, rest, and joy.—Lt 115, 1905. (.)
Christian Not Passive But Active—A healthy, growing Christian
will not be a passive recipient among his fellows. He must give as well
as receive. Our graces are increased by exercise. Christian society will
furnish us with pure air to breathe, and in breathing it we must be active.
The Christian work performed, the sympathies, encouragements, and
instructions given by us to those who need them, the self-restraint, love,
patience, and forbearance which are needed, exercised in Christian