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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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thoughtful nurses.—The Ministry of Healing, 219-<br />

222 (1905).<br />

Integrity Am<strong>on</strong>g Workers<br />

[Special Testim<strong>on</strong>ies To Physicians and<br />

Helpers, Pages 59-65 (1879).] The helpers at the<br />

sanitarium should not feel at liberty to appropriate<br />

to their own use articles of food provided for the<br />

patients. The temptati<strong>on</strong> is especially str<strong>on</strong>g to<br />

indulge in things allowed to newcomers, who must<br />

be induced gradually to correct pernicious habits.<br />

Some of the workers, like the children of Israel,<br />

allow perverted appetite and old habits of<br />

indulgence to clamor for victory. They l<strong>on</strong>g, as did<br />

ancient Israel, for the leeks and <strong>on</strong>i<strong>on</strong>s of Egypt.<br />

All c<strong>on</strong>nected with this instituti<strong>on</strong> should strictly<br />

adhere to the laws of life and health, and thus give<br />

no countenance, by their example, to the wr<strong>on</strong>g<br />

habits of others, which have made it necessary for<br />

them to come to the sanitarium for relief.<br />

Employees have no right to help themselves to<br />

crackers, nuts, raisins, dates, sugar, oranges or fruit<br />

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