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Healthful Living
every pulsation of the heart, is an evidence of the all-pervading care
of Him in whom we live and have our being. It is not because of
inherent power that year by year the earth produces her bounties, and
continues her motion around the sun. The hand of God guides the
planets, and keeps them in position in their orderly march through the
heavens. It is through his power that vegetation flourishes, that the
leaves appear and the flowers bloom. His word controls the elements,
and by him the valleys are made fruitful. He covers the heavens with
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clouds, and prepares rain for the earth; he “maketh grass to grow upon
the mountains.” “He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoarfrost
like ashes.” “When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters
in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of
the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind
out of his treasures.”—
The Signs of the Times, March 20, 1884
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Our Only Security
1190. All the systems of philosophy devised by men have led to
confusion and shame when God has not been recognized and honored.
To lose faith in God is terrible. Prosperity cannot be a great blessing
to nations or individuals, when once faith in his word is lost. Nothing
is truly great but that which is eternal in its tendencies. Truth, justice,
mercy, purity, and the love of God are imperishable. When men
possess these qualities, they are brought into close relationship to
God, and are candidates for the highest exaltation to which the race
can aspire. They will disregard human praise, and will be superior to
disappointment, weariness, the strife of tongues, and contentions for
supremacy.
He whose soul is imbued with the Spirit of God will learn the
lesson of confiding trust. Taking the written word as his counselor and
guide, he will find in science an aid to understand God, but he will not
become exalted till, in his blind self-conceit, he is a fool in his ideas
of God.—
The Signs of the Times, March 13, 1884
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1191. God will not dwell with those who reject his truth; for all
who disregard truth dishonor its Author. Of every house that has not
Jesus for an abiding guest, he says when he withdraws his presence,
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“Your house is left unto you desolate.” How can those who are destitute
of divine enlightenment have correct ideas of God’s plans and ways?