Says Christ: “Love one another, as I have loved you.” The souls of the youth that are brought under your roof are as precious in the eyes of the Lord as are the souls of your own dear children. When young men and women are separated from the softening, subduing influences of the home circle, it is the duty of those who have the care of them to make home influences for them. They would thus supply a great lack and would be doing a work for God as verily as the minister in the desk. To throw around these students an influence which would preserve them from temptations to immorality, and lead them to Jesus, is a work which heaven would approve. Grave responsibilities rest upon those who reside at the great center of the work, where are important interests to be sustained. Those who choose their homes at Battle Creek should be men and women of faith, of wisdom, and of prayer. {4T 648.3}

Kristus siger: »Elsk hverandre, som jeg har elsket jer.« Unge sjæle som er bragt under jeres tag er ligeså dyrebare i Herrens øjne, som jeres egne børns sjæle er. Når unge mænd og kvinder skilles fra hjemmekredsens, blødgørende, undertrykkende indflydelse, er det deres pligt, som har ansvar for dem, at gøre denne hjemmeindflydelse for dem. Derved vil de dække en stor mangel og vil gøre et arbejde for Gud ligeså sandelig som prædikanten bag talerstolen. Omgærdes disse studerende med en indflydelse, som vil beskytte dem fra umoralitetens fristelser og lede dem til Jesus, er et arbejde som himmelen ville billige. (649) Alvorlige ansvar påhviler dem som bor ved værkets store center, hvor vigtige interesser skal tilgodeses. Dem som vælger deres hjem i Battle Creek bør være troens, visdommens og bønnens mænd og kvinder.