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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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Be Active and Vigilant<br />

You have an important field of labor, and you<br />

should be active and vigilant, rendering cheerful<br />

and unqualified obedience to the Master’s calls.<br />

Ever bear in mind that your efforts to reform others<br />

should be made in the spirit of unwavering<br />

kindness. Nothing is ever gained by holding<br />

yourselves aloof from those whom you would help.<br />

You should keep before the minds of patients the<br />

fact that in suggesting reforms of their habits and<br />

customs you are presenting before them that which<br />

is not to ruin but to save them; that, while yielding<br />

up what they have hitherto esteemed and loved,<br />

they are to build <strong>on</strong> a more secure foundati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

While reform must be advocated with firmness and<br />

resoluti<strong>on</strong>, all appearance of bigotry or an<br />

overbearing spirit should be carefully shunned.<br />

Christ has given us precious less<strong>on</strong>s of patience,<br />

forbearance, and love. Rudeness is not energy; nor<br />

is domineering, heroism. The S<strong>on</strong> of God was<br />

persuasive. He was manifested to draw all men<br />

unto Him. His followers must study His life more<br />

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