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come partially lifeless through inaction.—
Testimonies for the Church
3:78
(1872).
Suffering Exaggerated by Mental Attitude (a personal mes-
sage)—If you had denied your taste for reading and seeking to please
yourself, had devoted more time to prudent physical exercise, and
had eaten carefully of proper, healthful food, you would have avoided
much suffering. A part of this suffering has been imaginary. If you had
braced your mind to resist the disposition to yield to infirmities, you
would not have had nervous spasms. Your mind should be drawn away
from yourself to household duties, keeping your house with order,
neatness, and taste.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:434
(1870).
Sufferers Inclined to Become Impatient—The sufferers can do
for themselves that which others cannot do as well for them. They
should commence to relieve nature of the load they have forced upon
her. They should remove the cause. Fast a short time, and give the
stomach chance for rest. Reduce the feverish state of the system by a
careful and understanding application of water. These efforts will help
nature in her struggles to free the system of impurities.
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But generally the persons who suffer pain become impatient. They
are not willing to use self-denial, and suffer a little from hunger.
Neither are they willing to wait the slow process of nature to build
up the overtaxed energies of the system. But they are determined to
obtain relief at once, and take powerful drugs.—
Healthful Living, 60,
1865
(Part 3). (
Selected Messages 2:450, 451
.)
Suffering Over Which We Have No Control—There are those
who are pure-minded and conscientious who are sufferers from differ-
ent causes over which they have no control.—AM 23, 1864. (
Child
Guidance, 445
.)
Not Hidden From Jesus Christ—What a wonderful thought it
is that Jesus knows all about the pains and griefs we bear. In all our
afflictions He was afflicted. Some among our friends know nothing of
human woe or physical pain. They are never sick, and therefore they
cannot enter fully into the feelings of those who are sick. But Jesus
is touched with the feeling of our infirmity.—MS 19, 1892. (
Selected
Messages 2:237
.)
God Vitally Interested in Man’s Suffering—He will not be held
guiltless who neglects to relieve suffering on the Sabbath. God’s holy
rest day was made for man, and acts of mercy are in perfect harmony