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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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directi<strong>on</strong>, if any of the liberties menti<strong>on</strong>ed are<br />

tolerated, no better evidence can be given that your<br />

mind is not pure and chaste as it should be, and that<br />

sin and crime have charms for you. You lower the<br />

standard of your dignified, virtuous womanhood<br />

and give unmistakable evidence that a low, brutal,<br />

comm<strong>on</strong> passi<strong>on</strong> and lust has been suffered to<br />

remain alive in your heart and has never been<br />

crucified.<br />

As I have been shown the dangers of those who<br />

profess better things, and the sins that exist am<strong>on</strong>g<br />

them,—a class who are not suspected of being in<br />

any danger from these polluting sins,—I have been<br />

led to inquire, Who, O Lord, shall stand when<br />

Thou appearest? Only those who have clean hands<br />

and pure hearts shall abide the day of His coming.<br />

Modesty and Reserve<br />

I feel impelled by the Spirit of the Lord to urge<br />

my sisters who profess godliness to cherish<br />

modesty of deportment and a becoming reserve,<br />

with shamefacedness and sobriety. The liberties<br />

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