Chapter 16—Our Health Journals
Our Health Books and Journals Needed—The people are in
sad need of the light shining from the pages of our health books and
journals. God desires to use these books and journals as mediums
through which flashes of light shall arrest the attention of the people,
and cause them to heed the warning of the message of the third angel.
Our health journals are instrumentalities in the field to do a special
work in disseminating the light that the inhabitants of the world must
have in this day of God’s preparation. They wield an untold influence
in the interests of health and temperance and social-purity reform, and
will accomplish great good in presenting these subjects in a proper
manner and in their true light to the people.—
Testimonies for the
Church 7:136
(1902).
Importance of Our Health Literature—Publications upon
health reform will reach many who will not see or read anything upon
important Bible subjects. The gratification of every perverted appetite
is doing its work of death. Intemperance must be met. With united,
intelligent effort make known the evils of beclouding the powers that
God has given, with wine and strong drinks. The truth must come to
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the people upon health reform. This is essential in order to arrest the
attention in regard to Bible truth.
God requires that His people shall be temperate in all things. Un-
less they practice temperance, they will not, cannot, be sanctified
through the truth. Their very thoughts and minds become depraved.
Meet the People Where They Are—Many of those looked upon
as hopelessly depraved, will, if properly instructed in regard to their
unhealthful practices, be arrested with the truth. Then they may be
elevated, ennobled, sanctified, fit vessels for the Master’s use. Go with
your hands full of proper reading matter, and your heart full of the
love of Christ for their souls, reaching them where they are. Many
are being drawn by the Lord Jesus Christ who will respond. They are
disgusted with the dry formalism which exists in the Christian world.
Many are becoming infidels because of the absence of true piety in
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