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261 The Retirement Years, p. 18.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… for the last forty years. Age is telling on these old standard-bearers, as well as upon me. If we are faithful to the end the Lord will give us a crown of life that …
262 The Retirement Years, p. 18.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… was the spirit and life of the message that John bore to all in his old age, when he was nearly one hundred years old. The standard-bearers are holding fast their …
263 The Retirement Years
… next year, he stayed on in retirement 12 years longer. After her death in 1901 he was elected president of the Florida Conference. The next year, at the age of …
264 The Retirement Years, p. 39.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… the promise of God that “those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they …
265 The Retirement Years, p. 40.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… reached the age of forty or fifty years should not feel that their labor is less efficient than formerly. Men of years and experience are just the ones to put …
266 The Retirement Years, p. 41.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… truth. The greater their age and experience, the nearer should they be able to approach the hearts of the people, having a more perfect knowledge of them.
267 The Retirement Years, p. 44.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… with the aged and afflicted and will seek to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and distressed. They should be taught to be diligent in missionary work …
268 The Retirement Years, p. 54.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… the parents live, it should be the children’s joy to honor and respect them. They should bring all the cheerfulness and sunshine into the life of the aged parents …
269 The Retirement Years
… for the aged, sick, and infirm ministers. This pension program has expanded through the years to include financial assistance to a broad spectrum of retired …
270 The Retirement Years, p. 67.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… in the faith for years, say that they used to be able to endure trial and difficulty, but since the infirmities of age began to press upon them, they had been greatly …
271 The Retirement Years, p. 103.1 (Ellen Gould White)
At the camp meeting in Vermont, in 1870, I felt urged by the Spirit of God to bear a plain testimony relative to the duty of aged and wealthy parents in the disposition …
272 The Retirement Years, p. 115.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… own age? What help could such a woman be to him in his ministry? At his age, Elder Butler should have the care that only a wife can give. If this young woman has a desire …
273 The Retirement Years, p. 119.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… to the truth he was instrumental? This woman is not young, but of an age to be a help to him in his work. Should your father’s age have stood as a barrier to his happiness …
274 The Retirement Years
[ Written to Joseph Bates in the last year of his life. He died at the age of eighty. ]
275 The Retirement Years, p. 130.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… as years advance, leaving less vitality with which to resist unhealthful influences; hence the greater necessity for the aged to have plenty of sunlight …
276 The Retirement Years, p. 132.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… tenderness. The aged, the sorrowing, and the sin-burdened, the children at play in their innocent joy, the little creatures of the groves, the patient beasts …
277 The Retirement Years, p. 161.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… weakened the action of the heart. I have made mistakes, the greatest of which was in allowing my sympathies for the people of God to lead me to take work upon …
278 The Retirement Years, p. 166.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… grasped the staff of faith and in dumb agony took by the hand his child, beautiful in the rosy health of youth, and went out to obey the word of God. The grand old …
279 The Retirement Years, p. 176.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… in the service of his Lord that he received more communications from heaven than he had received during all the former years of his life.— The Acts of the Apostles …
280 The Retirement Years, p. 176.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… old age John revealed the life of Christ in his life. He lived to be nearly one hundred years old, and over and over again he repeated the story of the crucified …