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Sense of Moral Obligation
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conditions will result. We are hence unfitted for that persevering,
energetic, and hopeful effort which we might have made had we
been true to nature’s laws. If we injure a single organ of the body, we
rob God of the service we might render to Him. “Know ye not that
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which
ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
are God’s.”—
The Review and Herald, October 18, 1881
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A Constant Sense of Responsibility
—Those who have a con-
stant realization that they stand in this relation to God will not place
in the stomach food which pleases the appetite, but which injures
the digestive organs. They will not spoil the property of God by
indulging improper habits of eating, drinking, or dressing. They will
take great care of the human machinery, realizing that they must do
this in order to work in copartnership with God. He wills that they
be healthy, happy, and useful. But in order for them to be this, they
must place their wills on the side of His will.—
Letter 166, 1903
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Guarded by the Bulwark of Moral Independence
—Parents
may, by earnest, persevering effort, unbiased by the customs of
fashionable life, build a moral bulwark about their children that will
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defend them from the miseries and crimes caused by intemperance.
Children should not be left to come up as they will, unduly devel-
oping traits that should be nipped in the bud; but they should be
disciplined carefully, and educated to take their position upon the
side of right, of reform and abstinence. In every crisis they will then
have moral independence to breast the storm of opposition sure to
assail those who take their stand in favor of true reform.—
Pacific
Health Journal, May 1890
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Bring your children to God in faith, and seek to impress their
susceptible minds with a sense of their obligations to their heavenly
Father. It will require lesson upon lesson, line upon line, precept
upon precept, here a little and there a little.—
The Review and Herald,
November 6, 1883
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Teach It as a Privilege and Blessing
—Let pupils be impressed
with the thought that the body is a temple in which God desires
to dwell; that it must be kept pure, the abiding place of high and
noble thoughts. As in the study of physiology they see that they are
indeed “fearfully and wonderfully made,” they will be inspired with