In the time of the end every divine institution is to

be restored. The breach made in the law at the

time the Sabbath was changed by man, is to

be repaired.  P. K. p 678

 

        Divine Institutions

 1.     Marriage

Manuscript Releases Volume One 

p 160

     Marriage was from the creation, constituted by God, a divine ordinance. The marriage institution was made in Eden.

   

    T. A. H.  p 25

     God celebrated the first marriage. Thus the institution has for its originator the Creator of the universe.     

"Marriage is honourable";

     2.   The Sabbath

The Faith I Live By P 35

All heaven was represented to me as beholding and watching upon the Sabbath those who acknowledge the claims of the fourth commandment and are observing the Sabbath.

Angels were marking their interest in, and high regard for, this divine institution.

Manuscript Releases Volume Five

p 303

Angels were marking their interest in, and their high sense of, the divine institution of God's appointment.

 

Prophets And Kings  p 678

     In the time of the end every divine institution is to be restored. The breach made in the law at the time the Sabbath was changed by man, is to be repaired.  

 

     3.   The Family

A. R. & S. H.  March 13,1894

The family is a divine institution, and parents should be wise, judicious teachers of their little ones.

   S T May 7, 1894

          The family institution is a divine ordinance

 

     4.    The Sanctuary Service

   S T June 20, 1902

 So far as it was of divine institution, the entire system of Judaism was a compacted prophecy of the Gospel.

To Christ "give all the prophets witness." 

  

 Second

A. R. & S. H. 

May 6, 1875

     The death of Jesus Christ for the redemption of man, lifts the veil and reflects a flood of light back hundreds of years, upon the whole institution of the Jewish system of religion.

 

The Desire of Ages p 211

     So far as it was of divine institution, the entire system of Judaism was a compacted prophecy of the gospel.  

 

5.  The True Higher Education

 Gospel Workers  P 469

    We must learn from the Divine Teacher

lessons of higher wisdom than were ever

taught in the most exalted schools of human institution.

 

  T volume 9  P 174

     The highest education is to follow in the footsteps of Christ, patterning after the example He gave when He was in the world.

 

Second A. R. & S.H.

 July 22, 1884   

     We must learn from the Divine

Teacher lessons of higher wisdom

than were ever taught in the most

exalted schools of human institution.

 

Testimonies to the Church Regarding

The Strengthening of Our Institutions

and Training Centers  p   19 

     I have often received divine instruction in regard to this institution, showing what manner of school it should be…..

 

6. The Health Message

Record of Progress and An Earnest Appeal  p 40

     God wants this institution to stand as an educating power in the medical

missionary work,…… 

 

Letters from E. W.  

to Sanitarium Workers p 6 

     If we will take our position firmly for

the right, there will be a mold placed

upon this sanitarium that it is according

to the divine plan….

 

Manuscript Releases Volume One p 388

     God gives the physicians of this institution skill and efficiency because they are serving Him. They know that their skill is not their own, that it comes from above. They realize that there is beside them a divine Watcher, who gives wisdom to His physicians, enabling them to move intelligently in their work.   

 

7.    Publishing Work

 

 Volume 4

The Australian Years  P 344

     The Echo publishing house is God's

own institution, and had it not been for

the Lord's care for it, it would not now

be in existence. . . .   

 

  1888 Materials  p 1694

     Every institution we establish,

every sanitarium and publishing

house and church, should bear the

inscription,

……..The work of preaching the

word, presenting Christ crucified

as the world's Redeemer, bears

the divine credentials, and proof

of its sacred character is given

in the conversion of souls.