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Healthful Living
114. The principles of health reform have the highest authority,
and deserve a wider sphere than has yet been given them by many who
profess present truth.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 8, 1896
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115. God’s way is to make man something he is not; God’s plan is
to set man to work in reformatory lines; then he will learn by experi-
ence how long he has pampered fleshly appetites, and ministered to his
own temperament, bringing weakness upon himself.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, October 12, 1896
.
116. There are those who have stood directly in the way of the
advance of health reform. They have held the people back by their
indifferent or depreciatory remarks, and their supposed pleasantries
and jokes.... Had all walked unitedly in the light, from the time it was
first given on the subject, there would have been an army of sensible
arguments employed to vindicate the work of God. But it has only
been by the most aggressive movements that any advance has been
made....
Duty of Ministers
The ministers of our land should become intelligent upon health
reform. They need to become acquainted with the science of physi-
ology. Then they will be intelligent in regard to the laws that govern
physical life and their bearings upon the health of mind and soul, and
will be able to speak correctly upon this subject. In their obedience to
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physical laws they are to hold forth the word of life to the people, and
lead up higher and still higher in the work of reform.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, January 11, 1897
.
117. Blindness mingles with the want of moral courage to deny
your appetite, to lift the cross, which means to take up the very du-
ties that cut across the natural appetites and passions.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, November 5, 1896
.
118. Many have misinterpreted health reform, and have received
perverted ideas of what constitutes right living.—
The Youth’s Instruc-
tor, May 31, 1894
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119. Nature’s path is the road God marks out, and it is broad
enough for any Christian.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:63
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