Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

dishes, as they are in going to meeting. While the
hands are engaged in the most common labor, the
mind may be elevated and ennobled by pure and
holy thoughts. When any of the workers manifest a
lack of respect for religious things, they should be
separated from the work. Let none feel that the
institution is dependent upon them.
Those who have been employed in our
institutions should now be responsible workers,
reliable in every place, as faithful to duty as the
compass to the pole. Had they rightly improved
their opportunities, they might now have
symmetrical characters and a deep, living
experience in religious things. But some of these
workers have separated from God. Religion is laid
aside. It is not an inwrought principle, carefully
cherished wherever they go, into whatever society
they are thrown, proving as an anchor to the soul. I
wish all the workers carefully to consider that
success in this life, and success in gaining the
future life, depend largely upon faithfulness in little
things. Those who long for higher responsibilities
should manifest faithfulness in performing the
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