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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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and criticize their work. Unfaithfulness was written<br />

against their names.<br />

The matr<strong>on</strong> looked up<strong>on</strong> the same that I saw,<br />

but she good-naturedly passed it by and seemed to<br />

have no sense of the true state of things. I saw a<br />

few trying to change things for the better and<br />

pleading for a faithful discharge of duty; but an<br />

indignant protest was raised, and most unmerciful<br />

thrusts were given those who ventured to take this<br />

resp<strong>on</strong>sibility. Unpleasant remarks were<br />

unsparingly made, and feelings of jealousy and<br />

envy indulged, and those who would have been<br />

true and faithful found numbers so large against<br />

them that they were compelled to allow things to<br />

drift <strong>on</strong> as before. These are some of the existing<br />

evils at the sanitarium.<br />

Our Influence<br />

Every act of our lives affects others for good or<br />

evil. Our influence is tending upward or<br />

downward; it is felt, acted up<strong>on</strong>, and to a greater or<br />

less degree reproduced by others. If by our<br />

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