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The educators and those being educated in our medical institutions
should remember that to keep the Sabbath aright means much to them
and to the patrons. In keeping the Sabbath, which God declares shall
be kept holy, they give the sign of their order, showing plainly that
they are on the Lord’s side.
Now and ever we are to stand as a distinct and peculiar people, free
from all worldly policy, unembarrassed by confederating with those
who have not wisdom to discern God’s claims so plainly set forth
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in His law. All our medical institutions are established as Seventh-
day Adventist institutions to represent the various features of gospel
medical missionary work and thus to prepare the way for the coming of
the Lord. We are to show that we are seeking to work in harmony with
heaven. We are to bear witness to all nations, kindreds, and tongues
that we are a people who love and fear God, a people who keep holy
His memorial of creation, the sign between Him and His obedient
children that He sanctifies them. And we are plainly to show our faith
in the soon coming of our Lord in the clouds of heaven.
As a people we have been greatly humiliated by the course that
some of our brethren in responsible positions have taken in departing
from the old landmarks. There are those who, in order to carry out
their plans, have by their words denied their faith. This shows how
little dependence can be placed on human wisdom and judgment. Now,
as never before, we need to see the danger of being led unguardedly
away from loyalty to God’s commands. We need to realize that God
has given us a decided message of warning for the world, even as He
gave Noah a message of warning for the antediluvians. Let our people
beware of belittling the importance of the Sabbath in order to link up
with unbelievers. Let them beware of departing from the principles of
our faith, making it appear that it is not wrong to conform to the world.
Let them be afraid of heeding the counsel of any man, whatever his
position may be, who works counter to that which God has wrought in
order to keep His people separate from the world.
The Lord is testing His people to see who will be loyal to the
principles of His truth. Our work is to proclaim to the world the first,
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second, and third angels’ messages. In the discharge of our duties we
are neither to despise nor to fear our enemies. To bind ourselves up
by contracts with those not of our faith is not in the order of God. We
are to treat with kindness and courtesy those who refuse to be loyal to