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Healthful Living
127. Guilt rests upon us who as a people have had much light,
because we have not appreciated or improved the light given upon
health reform.... This is not a matter to be trifled with, to be passed
off with a jest.—
The Medical Missionary, 216
. Relation of Health
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Reform to the Present Closing Work.
An Entering Wedge
128. This work we begin to comprehend better,—the light given
years ago,—that health reform principles would be as an entering
wedge to be followed by a religious influence. To voice the words
of John, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world,”—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 19, 1895
.
129. In the time of confusion and trouble such as never was since
there was a nation, the uplifted Saviour will be presented to the people
in all lands and in all places, that all who look may live.—
Special
Testimonies—Relating to Various Matters in Battle Creek, 7
.
130. The need of healthful habits is a part of the gospel which
must be presented to the people by those who hold forth the word of
life. Every minister should carefully consider what effect eating and
drinking have upon the health of the soul. By precept and example,
by a life of obedience to nature’s laws, he can present the truth in a
forcible manner.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896
.
131. Take the living principles of health reform into communities
that to a large degree are ignorant of what they should do.—
Special
Testimonies for Ministers and Workers 5:5
.
Preparation for Loud Cry
132. We as a people must make an advance move in this great
work. Ministers and people must act in concert. God’s people are not
prepared for the loud cry of the third angel; they have a work to do for
themselves which they should not leave for God to do for them. It is
an individual work; one cannot do it for another.—
Testimonies for the
Church 1:486
.
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133. You have stumbled at the health reform. It appears to you
to be a needless appendix to the truth. It is not so; it is a part of the
truth.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:546
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