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Section 11—The Sanitarium Family
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hope to succeed in perfecting themselves as Christian workers. It
is only as they place themselves under the discipline of God, con-
forming their daily lives to the pattern that they have in the Saviour’s
earthly life, that they can become partakers of the divine nature and
escape the corruption that is in the world through lust. As long as
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we are here in this world, we are on test and trial. We will be held
accountable not only for the working out of our own salvation, but
for the influence for good or evil that we exert on other souls.
He who is meek in spirit, who is purest and most childlike, will
be made strong for the battle. He will be strengthened with might
by His Spirit in the inner man. He who feels his weakness, and
wrestles with God as did Jacob, and like this servant of old cries, “I
will not let Thee go, except Thou bless me,” will go forth with the
fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit. The atmosphere of heaven will
surround him. His influence will be a positive force in favor of the
religion of Christ....
I am so glad that we can come to God in faith and humility,
and plead with Him until our souls are brought into such close
relationship with Jesus that we can lay our burdens at His feet,
saying, “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He
is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that
day”. The Lord is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
can ask or think. Our cold, faithless hearts may be quickened into
sensibility and life, until we can say in faith, “The life which I now
live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Let us seek for
the fullness of the salvation of Christ. Let us follow in the footsteps
of the Son of God, for the promise is, “He that followeth Me shall
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”—
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63, 1908.
In the Daily Round of Duties
The manager of a sanitarium bears important responsibilities.
Let his associates who are engaged in continuous, hard labor in
the various handicrafts, keep their souls searched as with a lighted
candle. Unity of action in diversity of labor must be maintained. The
workers are to live out the prayer of Christ, who declares, “I sanctify
Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.”