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The Voice in Speech and Song
restraining all words that are not kind and courteous, and speaking with
respect to all; if they would bear in mind that they are here preparing to
become members of the family in heaven, what a reformatory influence
would go forth from every home! ...
The natural inclinations followed will work out in inconsistencies
of conduct, in wrong speech, in disregard of God’s Word, in profane
language, in the thoughts.—
Manuscript 77, 1897
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Scale of Usefulness—The young men and women who join the
church should have a special education in the work for which they
are adapted. But if one continues to choose a low, common train of
conversation, receive him not as a worker. He will do more than can
be counteracted to spoil the other workers.... The words, the spirit, the
attitude, determine the scale of usefulness.—
The Review and Herald,
March 22, 1898
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