Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students - Ellen G. White

In the medical profession there are many
skeptics and atheists who exalt the works of God
above the God of science. Comparatively few of
those who enter worldly medical colleges come out
from them pure and unspotted. They have failed to
become elevated, ennobled, sanctified. Material
things eclipse the heavenly and eternal. With many,
religious faith and principles are mingled with
worldly customs and practices, and pure and
undefiled religion is rare. But it is the privilege of
every student to enter college with the same fixed,
determined principle that Daniel had when he
entered the court of Babylon, and throughout his
course to keep his integrity untarnished. The
strength and grace of God have been provided at an
infinite sacrifice, that men might be victorious over
Satan’s suggestions and temptations, and come
forth unsullied. The life, the words, and the
deportment are the most forcible argument, the
most solemn appeal, to the careless, irreverent, and
skeptical. Let the life and character be the strong
argument for Christianity; then men will be
compelled to take knowledge of you that you have
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