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Medical Ministry
these things. I am instructed to say to every family and every church,
God will bless you when you work out your own salvation with fear
and trembling, fearing lest, by unwise treatment of the body, you
will mar the Lord’s plan for you.
Many act as if health and disease were things entirely indepen-
dent of their conduct and entirely outside their control. They do not
reason from cause to effect, and submit to feebleness and disease
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as a necessity. Violent attacks of sickness they believe to be special
dispensations of Providence, or the result of some overruling, mas-
tering power; and they resort to drugs as a cure for the evil. But the
drugs taken to cure the disease weaken the system.
Regular Exercise
If those who are sick would exercise their muscles daily, women
as well as men, in outdoor work, using brain, bone, and muscle
proportionately, weakness and languor would disappear. Health
would take the place of disease, and strength the place of feebleness.
Let those who are sick do all in their power, by correct practice
in eating, drinking, and dressing, and by taking judicious exercise,
to secure recovery of health. Let the patients who come to our
sanitariums be taught to cooperate with God in seeking health. “Ye
are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” God made nerve and
muscle in order that they might be used. It is the inaction of the
human machinery that brings suffering and disease.—
Letter 5, 1904
.
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For Further Study
Duty to Preserve Health
:
Counsels on Health, 563-566
.
Efficiency Dependent on Health
:
Counsels on Health, 193, 194
(
Testimonies for the Church 4:264-270
);
Counsels on Health, 407
(
The Ministry of Healing, 219
).
The Price of Health
:
Counsels on Health, 595