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Advent Message to Sanctify Body and Soul, October 10
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as
your soul prospers.
3 John 2
, NKJV.
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 health 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
meats, 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
appetite be cleansed, and that self-denial be practiced in regard to those things
which are not good. This is a work that will have to be done before His people can
stand before Him a perfected people.
The remnant people of God must be a converted people. The presentation of
this message is to result in the conversion and sanctification 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. We must have a true, abiding faith that this message will go forth with
increasing importance till the close of time....
A solemn responsibility rests upon those who know the truth, that all their works
shall correspond with their faith, and that their lives shall be refined and sanctified,
and they be prepared for the work that must rapidly be done in these closing days of
the message. They have no time or strength to spend in the indulgence of appetite.
The words should come to us now with impelling earnestness, “Repent ..., and be
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall
come from the presence of the Lord.”—
The Review and Herald, February 24, 1910
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