Presenting Health and Christian Standards
[
See also
The Medical Evangelist, 513-551
and pp. 657-665,
“Health and Health Principles.”]
Presenting Health Reform—Our work is to be practical. We are
to remember that man has a body as well as a soul to save. Our work
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includes far more than standing before the people to preach to them.
In our work we are to minister to the physical infirmities of those with
whom we are brought in contact. We are to present the principles of
health reform, impressing our hearers with the thought that they have
a part to act in keeping themselves in health.
The body must be kept in a healthy condition in order that the soul
may be in health. The condition of the body affects the condition of the
soul. He who would have physical and spiritual strength must educate
his appetite in right lines. He must be careful not to burden the soul
by overtaxing his physical or spiritual powers. Faithful adherence to
right principles in eating, drinking, and dressing is a duty that God has
laid upon human beings.
The Lord desires us to obey the laws of health and life. He holds
each one responsible to care properly for his body, that it may be kept
in health.—
Letter 123, 1903
.
A Part of the Last Message—The principles of health reform are
found in the Word of God. The gospel of health is to be firmly linked
with the ministry of the Word. It is the Lord’s design that the restoring
influence of health reform shall be a part of the last great effort to
proclaim the gospel message.—
Medical Ministry, 259
.
As a people we have been given the work of making known the
principles of health reform. There are some who think that the question
of diet is not of sufficient importance to be included in their evangelistic
work. But such make a great mistake. God’s Word declares, “Whether
therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31
. The subject of temperance, in all its bear-
ings, has an important place in the work of salvation.—
Testimonies
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For The Church 9:112
(1909).
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