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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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dress. This leads to the neglect of grave<br />

resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities, and you find yourselves with<br />

scarcely a spark of the love of God in your hearts.<br />

Without delay renounce the cause of your<br />

backsliding, because it is sin against your own soul<br />

and against God. Be not hardened by the<br />

deceitfulness of sin.<br />

As a people, we are looked up<strong>on</strong> as peculiar.<br />

Our positi<strong>on</strong> and faith distinguish us from every<br />

other denominati<strong>on</strong>. If we are in life and character<br />

no better than the world, they will point the finger<br />

of scorn at us and say, “These are Seventh-day<br />

Adventists.” “We have here a sample of the people<br />

who keep the seventh day for Sunday.” The stigma<br />

which should be rightfully attached to such a class<br />

is thus placed up<strong>on</strong> all who are c<strong>on</strong>scientiously<br />

keeping the seventh day. Oh, how much better it<br />

would be if such a class would not make any<br />

pretensi<strong>on</strong> to obey the truth!—Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for the<br />

Church 5:138 (1882).<br />

Extremes in Dress<br />

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