Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

could well be accommodated and properly treated
by our physicians.
Maintain a High Standard
It is far easier to allow matters in our important
institutions to go in a lax, loose way than to weed
out that which is offensive, which will corrupt and
destroy confidence and faith. But it would be far
better to have a smaller number of workers, to
accomplish less, and as far as possible to have
these who are engaged in the work truehearted,
firm as rock in principle, loving the whole truth,
obedient to all the commandments of God.
The white-robed ones who surround the throne
of God are not composed of that company who
were lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
and who choose to drift with the current rather than
to breast the waves of opposition. All who remain
pure and uncorrupted from the spirit and influence
prevailing at this time will have stern conflicts.
They will come through great tribulations; they
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