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Healthful Living
Sleep
304. Nature will restore their vigor and strength in their sleeping
hours, if her laws are not violated.—
A Solemn Appeal, 62
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Exercise
305. Each faculty of the mind and each muscle has its distinctive
office, and all require to be exercised in order to become properly
developed and retain healthful vigor. Each organ and muscle has its
work to do in the living organism. Every wheel in the machinery
must be a living, active, working wheel. Nature’s fine and wonderful
works need to be kept in active motion in order to accomplish the
object for which they were designed. Each faculty has a bearing
upon the others, and all need to be exercised in order, to be properly
developed.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:77
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Bathing
306. Bathing frees the skin from the accumulation of impurities
which are constantly collecting, and keeps the skin moist and supple,
thereby increasing and equalizing the circulation. Persons in health
should on no account neglect bathing. They should by all means bathe
as often as twice a week.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:70
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Clothing
307. In order to maintain equal circulation, there should be an
equal distribution of clothing, which will bring equal warmth to all
parts of the body.—
The Health Reformer, May 1, 1872
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Unselfish Work
308. There is a much greater work upon us than we as yet have
any idea of, if we would insure health by placing ourselves in the right
relation to life.... The peculiar people whom God is purifying unto
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himself, to be translated to heaven without seeing death, should not
be behind others in good works. In their efforts to cleanse themselves
from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the