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The very conflicts and rebuffs we meet are to make us stronger and
give stability to our faith. We are not to be swayed, like a reed in the
wind, by every passing influence. Our souls, warmed and invigorated
by the truths of the gospel and refreshed by divine grace, are to open
and expand and shed their fragrance upon others. Clad in the whole
armor of righteousness, we can meet any influence and our purity
remain untarnished.
All should consider that God’s claims upon them are paramount to
all others. God has given to every person capabilities to improve, that
he may reflect glory to the Giver. Every day some progress should be
made. If the workers leave the sanitarium as they entered it, without
making decided improvement, gaining in knowledge and spiritual
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strength, they have met with loss. God designs that Christians shall
grow continually—grow up into the full stature of men and women in
Christ. All who do not grow stronger and become more firmly rooted
and grounded in the truth are continually retrograding.
A Light to the World
A special effort should be made to secure the services of conscien-
tious, Christian workers. It is the purpose of God that a health institu-
tion should be organized and controlled exclusively by Seventh-day
Adventists; and when unbelievers are brought in to occupy responsible
positions, an influence is presiding there that will tell with great weight
against the sanitarium. God did not intend that this institution should
be carried on after the order of any other health institute in the land,
but that it should be one of the most effectual instrumentalities in His
hands of giving light to the world. It should stand forth with scientific
ability, with moral and spiritual power, and as a faithful sentinel of
reform in all its bearings; and all who act a part in it should be reform-
ers, having respect to its rules, and heeding the light of health reform
now shining upon us as a people.
All can be a blessing to others, if they will place themselves where
they will correctly represent the religion of Jesus Christ. But there has
been greater anxiety to make the outward appearance in every way
presentable, that it may meet the minds of worldly patients, than to
maintain a living connection with Heaven, to watch and pray, that this