Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

You must know by experience how sinful sin is,
and how much you need Jesus as a personal
Saviour. Only thus can you become sons and
daughters of God. Your only merit is your great
need.
Those selected to take the nurses’ course in our
sanitariums should be wisely chosen. Young girls
of a superficial mold of character should not be
encouraged to take up this work. Many of the
young men who present themselves as being
desirous of being educated as physicians have not
those traits of character which will enable them to
withstand the temptations so common to the work
of a physician. Only those should be accepted who
give promise of becoming qualified for the great
work of imparting the principles of true health
reform.
Young ladies connected with our institutions
should keep a strict guard over themselves. In word
and action, they should be reserved. Never when
speaking to a married man should they show the
slightest freedom. To my sisters who are connected
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