Chapter 44—Laws Governing the Mind
Man Created With Perfectly Balanced Mind—The Lord made
man upright in the beginning. He was created with a perfectly balanced
mind, the size and strength of all its organs being perfectly developed.
Adam was a perfect type of man. Every quality of mind was well
proportioned, each having a distinctive office, and yet all dependent
one upon another for the full and proper use of any one of them.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:72
(1872).
Creator Ordained Laws of the Mind—He who created the mind
and ordained its laws provided for its development in accordance with
them.—
Education, 41
(1903).
God’s Great Laws—There are great laws that govern the world of
nature, and spiritual things are controlled by principles equally certain.
The means for an end must be employed if the desired results are to be
attained. God has appointed to every man his work according to his
ability. It is by education and practice that persons are to be qualified
to meet any emergency which may arise, and wise planning is needed
to place each one in his proper sphere that he may obtain an experience
that will fit him to bear responsibility.—
Testimonies for the Church
9:221, 222
(1909).
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Transgression of Nature’s Laws Is Sin—A continual transgres-
sion of nature’s laws is a continual transgression of the law of God.
The present weight of suffering and anguish which we see everywhere,
the present deformity, decrepitude, disease, and imbecility now flood-
ing the world, make it, in comparison to what it might be and what
God designed it should be, a lazar house; and the present generation
are feeble in mental, moral, and physical power. All this misery has
accumulated from generation to generation because fallen man will
break the law of God. Sins of the greatest magnitude are committed
through the indulgence of perverted appetite.—
Testimonies for the
Church 4:30
(1876).
Transgression Breaks Harmony—The same power that upholds
nature is working also in man. The same great laws that guide alike
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