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No recreation helpful only to themselves will prove so great a blessing to the children and youth as that which makes them helpful to others. Naturally enthusiastic and impressible, the young are quick to respond to suggestion. Education, 212

… will prove to be seeds of sin. Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 384, 385

“You have presented before me a proposition to invest in mining stock. You feel confident that such an investment would prove successful, and you think that in this way you will be able greatly to help the cause of God.

It is claimed that these expressions prove the shut-door doctrine, and that this is the reason of their omission in later editions. But in fact they teach only that which has been and is still held by us as a people, as I shall show.

In order to prove that I believed and taught the shut-door doctrine, Mr. C gives a quotation from the Review of June 11, 1861, signed by nine of our prominent members. The quotation reads as follows:

“Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was” ( Exodus 20:20, 21 ).

Train the people to correct habits and healthful practices, remembering that an ounce of preventive is of more value than a pound of cure. Lectures and studies in this line will prove of the highest value.— Letter 17a, 1893 .

… law prove themselves to be the children of disobedience, whose carnal hearts are not subject to the law of God, and neither indeed can be.— Manuscript 40, 1894 …

… can prove anything and everything, that every sect proves their doctrines right, and that the most diverse doctrines are proved from the Bible.

… prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:20, 21. The Bible tests of a prophet were brought to bear on Mrs. White's work, and …