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Counsels on Health
temptation and will receive the glorious reward of eternal life. And to
Christ they will render all the praise and glory.
Live Holy Lives
To the young men and young women who are being educated as
nurses and physicians I will say, Keep close to Jesus. By beholding
Him we become changed into His likeness. Remember that you are
not training for courtship or marriage, but for the marriage of Christ.
You may have a theoretical knowledge of the truth, but this will not
save you. You must know by experience how sinful sin is, and how
much you need Jesus as a personal Saviour. Only thus can you become
sons and daughters of God. Your only merit is your great need.
Those selected to take the nurses’ course in our sanitariums should
be wisely chosen. Young girls of a superficial mold of character should
not be encouraged to take up this work. Many of the young men who
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present themselves as being desirous of being educated as physicians
have not those traits of character which will enable them to withstand
the temptations so common to the work of a physician. Only those
should be accepted who give promise of becoming qualified for the
great work of imparting the principles of true health reform.
Young ladies connected with our institutions should keep a strict
guard over themselves. In word and action, they should be reserved.
Never when speaking to a married man should they show the slightest
freedom. To my sisters who are connected with our sanitariums, I
would say, gird on the armor. When talking to men, be kind and
courteous, but never free. Observant eyes are upon you, watching
your conduct, judging by it whether you are indeed children of God.
Be modest. Abstain from every appearance of evil. Keep on the
heavenly armor, or else for Christ’s sake sever your connection with
the sanitarium, the place where poor shipwrecked souls are to find
a haven. Those connected with these institutions are to take heed
to themselves. Never, by word or action, are they to give the least
occasion for wicked men to speak evil of the truth.
There are two kingdoms in this world, the kingdom of Christ and
the kingdom of Satan. To one of these kingdoms each one of us
belongs. In His wonderful prayer for His disciples, Christ said, “I
pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou