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CT 312 Quality work-education program and 1NL 97 [Same as BIO 447 statement, plus:]
grounds maintenance would quell love of sports. Exercise of mind could have invented a harmless way to get
physical exercise and amusement.
CT 348-352 Avaondale, April, 1900. School celebrated
with games. God didn't approve. The games were "frivolous, 4BIO 441-446 [background for BIO 447: Girls tennis,
rude, and grotesque." Staff should have prevented it. Students boys cricket. Money raised to buy the equipment. Three-legged
should have understood it to be inappropriate. All, in spirit, said races, relay races, etc. Australians love pleasure. President
"we want not your way, oh God." Tennis, cricket, are examples of shocked at EGW's rebuke. Thought students would balk. They
games that are a kind of idolatry. The issues are Salvational. didn't. Bible study reconciled president to counsel.] Better than
sports in manual training. What to do with free-time? Practical
CT 366 Be sober-minded. Frivolity is not pleasing work. Get a builder to teach them. Students didn't take
to God. Sports are a door to temptation. opportunity to take a stand for right.
CT 456 Bible is full of needed nourishment, and 6BIO 370-374 4th of July Celebration. Read it.
time is spent in games and ball-playing and races?!
CG 352
Every day there is housework to be done--cooking,
washing dishes, sweeping, and dusting. Mothers,
have you taught your daughters to do these daily
duties? . . . Their muscles need exercise. In the place
of getting exercise by jumping and playing ball or
croquet, let their exercise be to some purpose.
3SM 258
Every working of Christ in miracles was
essential, and was to reveal to the world that there
was a great work to be done on the Sabbath day for
the relief of suffering humanity, but the common
work was not to be done. Pleasure seeking, ball
playing, swimming, was not a necessity, but a sinful
neglect of the sacred day sanctified by Jehovah.
Christ did not perform miracles merely to display
His power, but always to meet Satan in afflicting
suffering humanity. Christ came to our world to
meet the needs of the suffering, whom Satan was
torturing.--Letter 252, 1906
PH084, 8
I was told by my Guide, "Look ye, and behold
the idolatry of my people, to whom I have been
speaking, rising up early, and presenting to them
their dangers. I looked that they should bring forth
fruit." There were some who were striving for the