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Health and Health Principles
[
See also
The Medical Evangelist, 513-551
.]
Evangelists Tempted to Be Careless of Health—Satan is at work
to destroy. He would lead the minds of those who love God and are
preaching the gospel to be careless of their physical health, for this
has a great deal to do with the general standard of virtue. Ministers
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give too much time to preaching, and exhaust their vital forces.... It
is the many long discourses that weary. One half of the gospel food
presented would tell to much better advantage.—
Letter 91, 1898
.
The Strain of Evangelism—Your Sunday night meetings are a
heavy strain on you, for you allow yourself to become wrought up to a
high tension. Then, afterward, a corresponding reaction comes, and
as a result your association with the church does not bring peace and
righteousness....
The tremendous efforts you make in preparing for your meetings
do not accomplish the work that is most needed. You may be praised
and exalted by men, but this is no evidence that your work exerts the
right influence.
Thus saith the Lord, “You must guard against becoming wrought
up to a high tension in preparing to speak to the people.”—
Letter 51,
1902
.
Temperance in God’s Work—The servants of Christ are not to
treat their health indifferently. Let no one labor to the point of ex-
haustion, thereby disqualifying himself for future effort. Do not try
to crowd into one day the work of two. At the end, those who work
carefully and wisely will be found to have accomplished as much as
those who so expend their physical and mental strength that they have
no deposit from which to draw in time of need.—
Gospel Workers,
244
(1915).
Labor Intelligently—Every worker should labor intelligently,
with an eye single to the glory of God. He should take special care not
to abuse any of his God-given faculties.
The Lord would have you, my brother, reform in your method
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