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I was shown that the manner in which you and your wife eat will
bring disease, which, when once fastened upon you, will not be easily
overcome. You may both bear up for years and not show any special
signs of breaking, but cause will be followed by the sure results. God
will not work a miracle for either of you to preserve your health and
life. You must eat and study and work understandingly, following
enlightened conscience. Our preachers should all be sincere, genuine
health reformers, not merely adopting the reforms because others do,
but from principle, in obedience to the word of God. God has given us
great light upon the health reform, which He requires us all to respect.
He does not send light to be rejected or disregarded by His people
without their suffering the consequences.
Pioneers in the Cause
I was shown that neither of you really know yourselves. If God
should let the enemy loose upon you, as He did upon His servant
Job, He would not find in you that spirit of steadfast integrity that
He found in Job, but a spirit of murmuring and of unbelief. Had you
been situated at Battle Creek during my husband’s illness, at the time
of the trial of our brethren and sisters there, when Satan had special
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power upon them, both of you would have drunk deep of their spirit of
jealousy and faultfinding. You would have been among the number, as
zealous as the rest, to make a diseased, careworn man, a paralytic, an
offender for a word.
You are inclined to offset your deficiencies by magnifying and
dwelling upon the wrongs you suppose exist in Brother and Sister
White; and had you an opportunity, as those had in Battle Creek, you
would venture to go to greater lengths than did some of them in their
wicked crusade against us; for you have less faith and less reverence
than some of them had, and would be less inclined to respect our work
and our calling.
I was shown that, notwithstanding you have before you the sad
experience and example of others who have become disaffected and
have murmured and been faultfinding and jealous of us, you would
fail to be warned by their example, and God would test your fidelity
and reveal the secrets of your hearts. Your distrust, suspicions, and