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Pure, Fresh Air Promotes Health of Mind and Body, October 30
Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will
be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.
Proverbs 3:7, 8
, NKJV.
A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul.
Nothing is so fruitful a cause of disease as depression, gloominess, and sadness.
Mental depression is terrible....
Air, air, the precious boon of heaven which all may have, will bless you with its
invigorating influence if you will not refuse it entrance. Welcome it, cultivate a love
for it, and it will prove a precious soother of the nerves. Air must be in constant
circulation to be kept pure. The influence of pure, fresh air is to cause the blood to
circulate healthfully through the system. It refreshes the body and tends to render it
strong and healthy, while at the same time its influence is decidedly felt upon the
mind, imparting a degree of composure and serenity. It excites the appetite, and
renders the digestion of food more perfect, and induces sound and sweet sleep.
The effects produced by living in close, ill-ventilated rooms are these: The
system becomes weak and unhealthy, the circulation is depressed, the blood moves
sluggishly through the system because it is not purified and vitalized by the pure,
invigorating air of heaven....
Do you believe that the end of all things is at hand, that the scenes of this earth’s
history are fast closing? If so, show your faith by your works....
“Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” Few have that genuine faith
which works by love and purifies the soul. But all who are accounted worthy of
everlasting life must obtain a moral fitness for the same. “Beloved, now are we the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man
that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” This is the work
before you, and you have none too much time if you engage in the work with all
your soul.—
Testimonies for the Church 1:702-705
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