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of some employed there. This must not longer exist. Plain talk and
plain action must be taken in these cases.—SpTWWPP 16, 17.
Home Influences Affect Institutions—Every Christian home
should have rules; and parents should, in their words and in their
deportment toward each other, give to the children a precious, living
example of what they desire them to be. Purity in speech, and true
Christian courtesy, should be constantly practiced. Let there be no
encouragement of sin; no evil surmising or evil speaking. Teach the
children and youth to respect themselves, to be true to God, true to
principle; teach them to respect and to obey the law of God. Then
these principles will control their lives, and will be carried out in their
association with others. They will love their neighbors as themselves.
They will create a pure atmosphere, one that will have an influence to
encourage weak souls in the path that leads to holiness and heaven.
Let every lesson be of an elevating, ennobling character, and the record
made in the books of heaven will be such as you will not be ashamed
to meet in the judgment.
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Children who receive this kind of instruction will not be a burden,
a cause of anxiety, in our institutions; but they will be a strength, a
support to those who bear responsibility. They will be prepared to
fill places of trust, and by precept and example, will be constantly
aiding others to do right.—
Letter 74, 1896
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Special Testimony to the
Managers and Workers in our Institutions, 12, 13
.)
Promise to Those Who Do Their Best—Christ is reviewing your
work in every line. He desires you to stand free from the power of
Satan, that everyone may recognize the purity of your work. The Lord
can commend only that which is worthy of commendation. To those
who are striving to do His will, He says with a voice of heavenly
sweetness, “Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ.”
The work that is done to the honor and glory of God will bear
the seal of God. Christ will endorse the work of those who will do
their best. And as they continue to do their best, they will increase in
knowledge, and the character of their work will be improved....
How glorious the prospect before those who will be learners of
Christ, meek and lowly in heart, after the divine Pattern! The Lord