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trained as the men, and let them take charge of these matters. I speak
intelligently. I speak because I understand what I am speaking about,
that there is too great a commonness.—
Manuscript Releases 13:113
(1911)
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Not to Open Door of Temptation—I have had this before me
time and time again. I have put it in writing for fear I might be taken
away. But I want to say that we must step up onto a higher plane of
action, and if we will do this the Lord will let His blessing rest upon
us. I have had so many letters from women and from men about their
falling right under the temptations of the devil as they were brought
in connection with the childbirth of women. I do not need to argue
this because your own sense will tell you that we are in a world of
temptation and trial. And we are to purify ourselves from every such
thing. God help us. You have no need to have me dwell upon this any
longer. The light given me is that we open the door to temptation and
for transgression. Let us have just as much a duty to take the burden
that rests upon the women for the women in childbirth as it is possible
for us to do. This is the right as it is presented to me.—
Manuscript
Releases 13:116 (1911)
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In Bible Times Women Took Care of Women .—I have felt
recently ... that it should be so arranged that the women will have
greater responsibilities. It is their privilege to be educated in some
lines of work just as thoroughly as the men are educated. In Bible
times the women always took charge of the women, and the Lord
worked with them. I want to say there are many temptations presented
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to me by individuals [and] that I have kept my own counsel. I have
not said anything, but it has been sins brought in by this commonness
and the temptations that come in. Now, I know of some that have
been tempted over matters. I know the women for myself. I know the
women are clear, and they are not to be censured, only in one point,
and that is to take their stand of propriety and not to mix and mingle
right together, the men and the women taking charge.—
Manuscript
Releases 13:114 (1911)
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Midwives to Take Responsibility—I have written to you the in-
struction that has been given me regarding the special work to be done
by the lady physicians in our sanitariums. It is the Lord’s plan that
men shall be trained to treat men, and women trained to treat women.
In the confinement of women, midwives should take the responsibility