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Section 12—The Prevention of Disease and Its Cure
by Rational Methods
Prevention of Disease
The distinction between prevention and cure has not been made
sufficiently important. Teach the people that it is better to know how
to keep well than how to cure disease. Our physicians should be
wise educators, warning all against self-indulgence, showing that
abstinence from the things that God has prohibited is the only way
to prevent ruin of body and mind.—
Manuscript 99, 1902.
Early Teaching of Physiology
The Creator of man has arranged the living machinery of our
bodies. Every function is wonderfully and wisely made. And God
has pledged Himself to keep this human machinery in healthful
action if the human agent will obey His laws and cooperate with
God. Every law governing the human machinery is to be considered
just as truly divine in origin, in character, and in importance as the
word of God. Every careless, inattentive action, any abuse put upon
the Lord’s wonderful mechanism by disregarding His specified laws
in the human habitation, is a violation of God’s law. We may behold
and admire the work of God in the natural world, but the human
habitation is the most wonderful.
From the first dawn of reason the human mind should become
intelligent in regard to the physical structure. Here Jehovah has
given a specimen of Himself; for man was made in the image of
God. It is Satan’s determined work to destroy the moral image of
God in man. He would make the intelligence of man, his highest,
noblest gift, the most destructive agent to pollute with sin everything
he touches.—
Manuscript 3, 1897.
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