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Section 16—The Worker’s Health
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before they enter the pulpit, whether they have been self-denying,
whether their food has been simple, such as the stomach can digest,
without beclouding the brain. Please read the first chapter of Sec-
ond Corinthians. This entire chapter is a lesson for all believers.—
Manuscript 62, 1900.
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Strengthening the Mental and Moral Powers
I am instructed to say to our ministers and to the presidents of
our conferences: Your usefulness as laborers for God in the work
of recovering perishing souls depends much on your success in
overcoming appetite. Overcome the desire to gratify appetite, and if
you do this your passions will be easily controlled. Then your mental
and moral powers will be stronger. “And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.”—
Letter
158, 1909
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In Warm Climates
In warm, heating climates, there should be given to the worker,
in whatever line of work he is to do, less work than in a more bracing
climate. The Lord remembers that we are but dust....
The less sugar introduced into the food in its preparation, the less
difficulty will be experienced because of the heat of the climate.—
Letter 91, 1898
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Gardening and Health
Let men and women work in field and orchard and garden. This
will bring health and strength to nerve and muscle. Living indoors
and cherishing invalidism is a very poor business. If those who are
sick will give nerves and muscles and sinews proper exercise in the
open air, their health will be renewed.
The most astonishing ignorance prevails in regard to putting
brain, bone, and muscle into active service. Every part of the hu-
man organism should be equally taxed. This is necessary for the
harmonious development and action of every part.
Many do not see the importance of having land to cultivate, and
of raising fruit and vegetables that their tables may be supplied with