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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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It is our business to give a right impressi<strong>on</strong> to<br />

others. We are preparing for eternity, for the<br />

sanitarium above, where the Great Physician shall<br />

wipe away the tears from every eye, and where the<br />

leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the<br />

nati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

Denominati<strong>on</strong>al Views<br />

Not to Be Urged Up<strong>on</strong> Patients<br />

[Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for the Church 3:166, 167<br />

(1872).] The religi<strong>on</strong> of Christ is not to be placed<br />

in the background and its holy principles laid down<br />

to meet the approval of any class, however popular.<br />

If the standard of truth and holiness is lowered, the<br />

design of God will not then be carried out in this<br />

instituti<strong>on</strong>.<br />

But our peculiar faith should not be discussed<br />

with patients. Their minds should not be<br />

unnecessarily excited up<strong>on</strong> subjects wherein we<br />

differ, unless they themselves desire it; and then<br />

great cauti<strong>on</strong> should be observed not to agitate the<br />

mind by urging up<strong>on</strong> them our peculiar faith. The<br />

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