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principles of moral purity. If you have neglected to teach them line
upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, begin
at once to do your duty. Take up your responsibilities and work for
time and for eternity. Let not another day pass without confessing
your neglect to your children. Tell them that you mean now to do your
God-appointed work. Ask them to take hold with you in the reform.
Make diligent efforts to redeem the past. No longer remain in the
condition of the Laodicean church. In the name of the Lord I call upon
every family to show its true colors. Reform the church in your own
home.
As you faithfully do your duty in the home, the father as a priest of
the household, the mother as a home missionary, you are multiplying
agencies for doing good outside of the home. As you improve your
own powers, you are becoming better fitted to labor in the church and
in the neighborhood. By binding your children to yourselves and to
God, fathers and mothers and children become laborers together with
God.
As a means of overcoming prejudice and gaining access to minds,
medical missionary work must be done, not in one or two places only,
but in many places where the truth has not yet been proclaimed. We
are to work as gospel medical missionaries, to heal the sin-sick souls
by giving them the message of salvation.—
Testimonies for the Church
9:211
(1909).
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