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Selected Messages Book 2
The Necessities and Comforts of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Free From Worldly Enterprises and Conflicting Duties . . . .
Avoid Cultivating Expensive Tastes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Spirit of Self-Denial of Early Days Required Now . . . . . . . .
Chapter 21—The Workers in Our Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Procuring the Very Best Talent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wages for Institutional Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A View of Threatening Dangers in 1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Importance of Self-Denial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Threat to All Our Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Characteristic Feature of the Work Imperiled . . . . . . . . . .
Physicians and Ministers Called to Self-Denial . . . . . . . . . . .
Counsel to a Physician Regarding a Fixed Salary . . . . . . . . .
A Percentage Proposition Counseled Against . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Do Not Exact a High Salary” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Extravagance and Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
An Important Interview Regarding Physicians’ Wages . . . . .
Meeting an Emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 22—Financial Assistance in Worker Qualification . . .
Help Promising Young Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Assistance Given Our First Medical Students . . . . . . . . . . . .
Qualifying Executives and Evangelists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Loans Better Than Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 23—Counsel to One Who for Financial Reasons
Was Planning to Leave the Work of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 6—Comfort and Encouragement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 24—Words to Those in Advanced Years . . . . . . . . . . .
The Afternoon Sun—Mellow and Productive . . . . . . . . . . . .
No Excuse for Relaxing Self-Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
To Rise Up and Call Them Blessed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Counsel to Those Who Have Grown Gray in Service . . . . . .
Aged Workers to Be Teachers and Counselors . . . . . . . . . . .
Growing Old but Continuing to Testify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Less Constant Taxing Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Trust God—Lean Upon Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 25—Fortitude in Affliction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Why This Affliction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .