Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

example we aid others in the development of good
principles, we give them power to do good. In their
turn they exert the same beneficial influence upon
others, and thus hundreds and thousands are
affected by our unconscious influence. If we by
acts strengthen or force into activity the evil
powers possessed by those around us, we share
their sin and will have to render an account for the
good we might have done them and did not do,
because we made not God our strength, our guide,
our counselor.—Testimonies for the Church 2:133
(1868).
Need of Opportunity for Christian Culture
[Health, Philanthropic, and Medical Missionary
Work, 13-16 (1890).] No soul can prosper without
time to pray, to search the Scriptures; and all
should, as far as possible, have the privilege of
attending public worship. All need to keep the oil
of grace in their vessels with their lamps. Above all
others, the workers who are thrown into the society
of worldlings need to have Jesus held up before
them, that they may behold the Lamb of God that
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