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Faithfulness in Health Reform
[Manuscript read before the delegates at the General Conference,
Washington D. C., May 31, 1909.]
I am instructed to bear a message to all our people on the sub-
ject of health reform, for many have backslidden from their former
loyalty to health reform principles.
God’s purpose for His children is that they shall grow up to the
full stature of men and women in Christ. In order to do this, they
must use aright every power of mind, soul, and body. They cannot
afford to waste any mental or physical strength.
The question of how to preserve the health is one of primary
importance. When we study this question in the fear of God we
shall learn that it is best, for both our physical and our spiritual
advancement, to observe simplicity in diet. Let us patiently study
this question. We need knowledge and judgment in order to move
wisely in this matter. Nature’s laws are not to be resisted, but obeyed.
Those who have received instruction regarding the evils of the
use of flesh foods, tea and coffee, and rich and unhealthful food
preparations, and who are determined to make a covenant with God
by sacrifice, will not continue to indulge their appetite for food that
they know to be unhealthful. God demands that the appetites be
cleansed, and that self-denial be practiced in regard to those things
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which are not good. This is a work that will have to be done before
His people can stand before Him a perfected people.
Personal Responsibility
The remnant people of God must be a converted people. The
presentation of this message is to result in the conversion and sanc-
tification of souls. We are to feel the power of the Spirit of God
in this movement. This is a wonderful, definite message; it means
everything to the receiver, and it is to be proclaimed with a loud cry.
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