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with cares and responsibilities, can look after the spiritual interests
of the employees. It is necessary that such men and women should
be constantly at work in missionary lines in this large institution.
Not half is being done that should be done in this respect. It should
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be the part of these men and women to labor for the employees in
spiritual lines, giving them instruction that will teach them how to win
souls, showing them that this is to be done, not by much talking, but
by a consistent, Christlike life. The workers are exposed to worldly
influences; but instead of being molded by these influences, they should
be consecrated missionaries, controlled by an influence that elevates
and refines. Thus they will learn how to meet unbelievers and how to
exert an influence that will win them to Christ.
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Extract from a letter written in 1895 from Cooranbong, New South
Wales.—God has a work for every believer who labors in the sanitar-
ium. Every nurse is to be a channel of blessing, receiving light from
above and letting it shine forth to others. The workers are not to con-
form to fashionable display of those who come to the sanitarium for
treatment, but are to consecrate themselves to God. The atmosphere
that surrounds their souls is to be a savor of life unto life. Temptations
will beset them on every side, but let them ask God for His presence
and guidance. The Lord said to Moses: “Certainly I will be with thee;”
and to every faithful, consecrated worker the same assurance is given.
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