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Healthful Living
physical and mental vigor. They will have moral power to engage in
the warfare against Satan; and in the name of him who conquered
appetite in their behalf, they may be more than conquerors on their
own account.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:36
.
Adherence to Principle
69. If laborers who are now in the field had intelligently used
their physical and mental powers according to the laws of hygiene,
they would not only have been able to become proficient in common
branches of education, but would have been versed in different lan-
guages, and thus would have been qualified to become missionaries in
foreign countries.—
The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894
.
70. The souls and bodies of people have been fast becoming a
corrupted mass of disease. This would not have been the case if those
who claimed to believe the truth had lived out its sacred principles in
their lives.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
.
71. If man had obeyed the laws of Jehovah in his natural laws, the
image of God would have been revealed in him.—
Ibid
.
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