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Counsels on Health
incidents of everyday life often pass without our notice, but it is these
things that shape the character. Every event of life is great for good
or for evil. The mind needs to be trained by daily tests, that it may
acquire power to stand in any difficult position. In the days of trial
and of peril you will need to be fortified to stand firmly for the right,
independent of every opposing influence.
Advance in Knowledge
God is willing to do much for you, if you will only feel your need of
Him. Jesus loves you. Ever seek to walk in the light of God’s wisdom;
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and through all the changing scenes of life, do not rest unless you know
that your will is in harmony with the will of your Creator. Through
faith in Him you may obtain strength to resist every temptation of
Satan and thus increase in moral power with every test from God.
You may become men of responsibility and influence if, by the
power of your will, united with divine strength, you earnestly engage
in the work. Exercise the mental powers and in no case neglect the
physical. Let not intellectual slothfulness close up your path to greater
knowledge. Learn to reflect as well as to study, that your minds may
expand, strengthen, and develop. Never think that you have learned
enough and that you may now relax your efforts. The cultivated mind
is the measure of the man. Your education should continue during your
lifetime; every day you should be learning and putting to practical use
the knowledge gained.
You are rising in true dignity and moral worth as you practice
virtue and cherish uprightness in heart and life. Let not your character
be affected by a taint of the leprosy of selfishness. A noble soul, united
with a cultivated intellect, will make you men whom God will use in
positions of sacred trust.
It should be the first work of all connected with this institution
to be right before God themselves, and then to stand in the strength
of Christ, unaffected by the wrong influences to which they will be
exposed. If they make the broad principles of the word of God the
foundation of the character, they may stand wherever the Lord in His
providence may call them, surrounded by any deleterious influence,
and yet not be swayed from the path of right.
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