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Healthful Living
49. God calls for reformers to stand in defense of the laws he has
established to govern the human system, and to maintain an elevated
standard in the training of the mind and culture of the heart.—
Special
Testimonies to Ministers and Workers 3:22
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Knowledge a Duty
50. It is the duty of every human being, for his own sake and for the
sake of humanity, to inform himself or herself in regard to the laws of
organic life, and conscientiously to obey them.... It is the duty of every
person to become intelligent in regard to disease and its causes. You
must study your Bible, in order to understand the value that the Lord
places on the men whom Christ has purchased at such an infinite price.
Then we should become acquainted with the laws of life, that every
action of the human agent may be in perfect harmony with the laws of
God. When there is so great peril in ignorance, is it not best to be wise
in regard to the human habitation fitted up by our Creator, and over
which he desires that we shall be faithful stewards?—
Unpublished
Testimonies, December 4, 1896
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