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Medical Ministry
Like Streams From a Pure Fountain
Directors and helpers, ... I speak to you as Christians, as to men
and women whose souls are united to Christ as the branch is united
to the living vine. If you have not been renewed in the spirit of
your mind, for your soul’s sake make no delay to have your life
hidden with Christ in God. This is the first business of your life.
When Christ is abiding in the heart, you will not be light, chaffy,
and immodest, but circumspect, and reliable in every place, sending
forth pure words like streams from a pure fountain, refreshing all
with whom you come in contact.
If you decide to continue your idle talk and frivolous conduct,
go into some other place where your influence and example will not
be so widely felt, contaminating other souls. What you all need is
such a sense of the purity and holiness of Christ as will lead you
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to despise this pretense of religion which blesses no one, gives no
peace of conscience, no repose of faith.
Let all connected with these institutions that God has ordained
for the saving of souls seek divine wisdom, heavenly grace, that
they may have an elevating influence upon others. Unless they are
constantly receiving strength from Jesus, looking to Him, trusting in
Him, by faith drawing from His divine grace, they will become an
easy prey to temptation.
There are so many forward misses, and bold, forward women,
who have a faculty of insinuating themselves into notice, putting
themselves in the company of young men, courting the attentions,
inviting flirtations from married or unmarried men, that unless your
face is set Christward, firm as steel, you will be drawn into Satan’s
net.
Educate to Purity of Thought
It is time that we as Christians reach a higher standard. God
forbid that any institution that He has planted shall become a means
of decoying souls, a place where iniquity is taught. Let all learn in
the school of Christ, lowliness of heart; let them lean their helpless
souls on Jesus. Live in the light from the oracles of God. Educate
your minds and hearts to pure, elevated, holy thoughts; “be ye holy