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By the exercise of the willpower in placing themselves in right
relation to life, patients can do much to cooperate with the physician’s
efforts for their recovery. There are thousands who can recover health
if they will. The Lord does not want them to be sick. He desires them
to be well and happy, and they should make up their minds to be well.
Often invalids can resist disease simply by refusing to yield to
ailments and settle down in a state of inactivity. Rising above their
aches and pains, let them engage in useful employment suited to their
strength. By such employment and the free use of air and sunlight,
many an emaciated invalid might recover health and strength.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 246
(1905).
Improved Health Promised—Evil habits and practices are bring-
ing upon men disease of every kind. Let the understanding be con-
vinced by education as to the sinfulness of abusing and degrading
the powers that God has given. Let the mind become intelligent and
the will be placed on the Lord’s side, and there will be a wonderful
improvement in the physical health.
But this can never be accomplished in mere human strength. With
strenuous efforts through the grace of Christ to renounce all evil prac-
tices and associations and to observe temperance in all things, there
must be an abiding persuasion that repentance for the past, as well as
forgiveness, is to be sought of God through the atoning sacrifice of
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Christ. These things must be brought into daily experience; there must
be strict watchfulness and unwearied entreaty that Christ will bring
every thought into captivity to Himself; His renovating power must be
given to the soul, that as accountable beings we may present to God
our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Him, which is
our reasonable service.—
Medical Missionary, November-December,
1892
. (
Counsels on Health, 504, 504
.)
Narcotics and the Will—There are some who use narcotics, and
by indulgence are encouraging wrong habits that are obtaining a con-
trolling power over the will, the thoughts, and the entire man.—Lt 14,
1885.
Teach the Power of the Will—The power of the will and the
importance of self-control, both in the preservation and in the recovery
of health, the depressing and even ruinous effect of anger, discontent,
selfishness, or impurity and, on the other hand, the marvelous life-