Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (C) Balance and Victory (Words of Promise and Hope) Sincere Repentance and Determined Effort Necessary—Those who corrupt their own bodies cannot enjoy the favor of God until they sincerely repent, make an entire reform, and perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord.—An Appeal to Mothers, 29 (1864). The only hopeContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1
Section 5—Life’s Energizing Force (B) The Negative (Part 3) Men, Women, and Youth Involved in Moral Depravity—The moral dangers to which all, both old and young, are exposed are daily increasing. Moral derangement, which we call depravity, finds ample room to work, and an influence is exerted by men, women, and youth professing to beContinue reading “Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 1”
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”