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stars are useful and glorious in fulfilling their mission.—
Life Sketches
of Ellen G. White, 87
(1915).
Universal Dominion of Law—To him who learns thus to interpret
its teachings, all nature becomes illuminated; the world is a lesson
book, life a school. The unity of man with nature and with God,
the universal dominion of law, the results of transgression, cannot
fail of impressing the mind and molding the character.—
Education,
100
(1903).
To Transgress Nature’s Laws Is to Transgress God’s—A con-
tinual transgression of nature’s laws is a continual transgression of the
law of God. Had men always been obedient to the law of the Ten Com-
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mandments, carrying out in their lives the principles of those precepts,
the curse of disease now flooding the world would not exist.—
Christian
Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 8, 1890
. (
Counsels on Health, 20
.)
Transgression Brings Mental and Physical Suffering—Against
every transgression of the laws of life nature utters her protest. She
bears abuse as long as she can; but finally retribution comes, and the
mental as well as the physical powers suffer. Nor does the punishment
fall on the transgressor alone; the effects of his indulgence are seen
in his offspring, and thus the evil is passed on from generation to
generation.
Many complain of providence when their friends suffer or are
removed by death; but it is not in the order of God that men and
women should lead lives of suffering and die prematurely, leaving
their work unfinished. God would have us live out the full measure
of our days, with every organ in health, doing its appointed work. It
is unjust to charge Him with a result which in many cases is due to
the individual’s own transgression of natural law.—
The Review and
Herald, February 11, 1902
.
The Answer to Deism—Many teach that matter possesses vital
power—that certain properties are imparted to matter, and it is then
left to act through its own inherent energy; and that the operations
of nature are conducted in harmony with fixed laws, with which God
Himself cannot interfere. This is false science and is not sustained by
the Word of God. Nature is the servant of her Creator. God does not
annul His laws or work contrary to them, but He is continually using
them as His instruments. Nature testifies of an intelligence, a presence,
an active energy, that works in and through her laws. There is in nature