Chapter 10—Vital Vigor and Energy
General Statements
175. God has provided us with constitutional force, which will be
needed at different periods of our life. If we recklessly exhaust this
force by continual overtaxation, we shall sometime be losers. Our
usefulness will be lessened, if not life itself destroyed.—
Christian
Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 65
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176. God endowed man with so great vital force that he has with-
stood the accumulation of disease upon the race in consequence of
perverted habits, and has continued for six thousand years....
If Adam, at his creation, had not been endowed with twenty times
as much vital force as men now have, the race, with their present habits
of living in violation of natural law, would have become extinct.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:138, 139
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177. The tree of life possessed the power to perpetuate life, and as
long as they [Adam and Eve] ate of it, they could not die. The lives of
the antediluvians were protracted because of the life-giving power of
this tree, which was transmitted to them from Adam and Eve.—
The
Review and Herald, January 26, 1897
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The Bible
Conditions Conducive to Health and Vigor
178. The Bible is a leaf from the tree of life, and by eating it,
by receiving it into our minds, we shall grow strong to do the will of
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God.—
The Review and Herald, May 4, 1897
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Exercise
179. Neither are they willing to wait the slow process of nature to
build up the overtaxed energies of the system.—
How to Live, 60
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180. Useful employment would bring into exercise the enfeebled
muscles, enliven the stagnant blood, and the entire system would
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