Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (B) The Negative (Part 2) (Words of Restraint and Caution, Part 2) Counsel to Women—I write with a distressed heart that the women in this age, both married and unmarried, too frequently do not maintain the reserve that is necessary. They act like coquettes. They encourage the attentions of single andContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (B) The Negative (Words of Restraint and Caution) Marriage Not Designed to Cover Sensuality and Base Practices—God never designed that marriage should cover the multitude of sins that are practiced. Sensuality and base practices in a marriage relation are educating the mind and moral taste for demoralizing practices outside the marriageContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher (Part 4) Best Use of Parts Composing Human Machinery—Had teachers been learning the lessons the Lord would have them learn, there would not be a class of students whose bills must be settled by someone or else they leave the college with a heavy debtContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher (Part 2) Call Forth High Qualities of the Mind—The greatest care should be taken in the education of youth to vary the manner of instruction so as to call forth the high and noble powers of the mind. Parents and teachers of schools are certainlyContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 22—The School and the Teacher Awakening of Mental Powers—True education is not the forcing of instruction on an unready and unreceptive mind. The mental powers must be awakened, the interest aroused. For this, God’s method of teaching provided. He who created the mind and ordained its laws, provided for itsContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 20—The Home Atmosphere (Part 1) Home Influences Affect Society—The heart of the community, of the church, and of the nation is the household. The well-being of society, the success of the church, the prosperity of the nation, depend upon home influences.—The Ministry of Healing, 349 (1905).  Effective Agencies for FormationContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”

Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1

Section 4—The Growing Personality Chapter 18—Security in the Home (Part 2) Relationship Controlled by Reason—Those who regard the marriage relation as one of God’s sacred ordinances, guarded by His holy precept, will be controlled by the dictates of reason. They will consider carefully the result of every privilege the marriage relation grants. Such will feelContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”