Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

As a family, you need to be sanctified through
the truth. Dear sister, will you see the work to be
done for you and take hold of it without delay, that
your influence may be saving? Work out your
salvation with fear and trembling. Walk in wisdom
toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to
answer every man." "Whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good
report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any
praise, think on these things."
There are enough profitable subjects upon
which to meditate and converse. The conversation
of the Christian should be in heaven, whence we
look for the Saviour. Meditation upon heavenly
things is profitable, and will ever be accompanied
with the peace and comfort of the Holy Spirit. Our
calling is holy, our profession exalted. God is
purifying unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous
of good works. He is sitting as a refiner and
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