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Chapter 7—Neglect of Health Reform
Dear Brother and Sister I,
The Lord has shown some things in regard to you which I feel it
a duty to write. You were among the number who were presented
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before me as backward in health reform. Light has shone upon the
pathway in which the people of God are traveling, yet all do not
walk in the light and follow as fast as the providence of God marks
out and opens the way before them. Until they do this, they will
be in darkness. If God has spoken to His people, He designs that
they shall hear and obey His voice. Last Sabbath, as I was speaking,
your pale faces rose distinctly before me as I had been shown them.
I saw your condition of health and the ailments you have suffered
under so long. I was shown that you have not lived healthfully. Your
appetites have been unhealthy, and you have gratified the taste at
the expense of the stomach. You have taken into your stomachs
articles which it is impossible to convert into good blood. This has
laid a heavy tax on the liver, for the reason that the digestive organs
are deranged. You both have diseased livers. The health reform
would be a great benefit to you both if you would strictly carry it out.
This you have failed to do. Your appetites are morbid, and because
you do not relish a plain, simple diet, composed of unbolted wheat
flour, vegetables and fruits prepared without spices or grease, you
are continually transgressing the laws which God has established
in your system. While you do this you must suffer the penalty, for
to every transgression is affixed a penalty. Yet you wonder at your
continued poor health.
Be assured that God will not work a miracle to save you from
the result of your own course of action. You have not had a liberal
supply of air. Brother I has labored in his store, closely applying
himself to his business and allowing himself but a limited amount of
air and exercise. His circulation is depressed. He breathes only from
the top of his lungs. It is seldom that he exercises the abdominal
muscles in the act of breathing. Stomach, liver, lungs, and brain are
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