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a knowledge of nature’s remedial agencies and how to apply them. It
is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment
of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly
to use this knowledge.
The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort
that many are not willing to give. Nature’s process of healing and
upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow. The surrender
of hurtful indulgences requires sacrifice. But in the end it will be found
that nature, untrammeled, does her work wisely and well. Those who
persevere in obedience to her laws will reap the reward in health of
body and health of mind
A Comprehensive Code—In regard to that which we can do for
ourselves, there is a point that requires careful, thoughtful consider-
ation. I must become acquainted with myself. I must be a learner
always as to how to take care of this building, the body God has given
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me, that I may preserve it in the very best condition of health. I must
eat those things which will be for my very best good physically, and
I must take special care to have my clothing such as will conduce
to a healthful circulation of the blood. I must not deprive myself of
exercise and air. I must get all the sunlight that it is possible for me to
obtain. I must have wisdom to be a faithful guardian of my body.
I should do a very unwise thing to enter a cool room when in a
perspiration; I should show myself an unwise steward to allow myself
to sit in a draft, and thus expose myself so as to take cold. I should be
unwise to sit with cold feet and limbs and thus drive back the blood
from the extremities to the brain or internal organs. I should always
protect my feet in damp weather. I should eat regularly of the most
healthful food which will make the best quality of blood, and I should
not work intemperately if it is in my power to avoid doing so. And
when I violate the laws God has established in my being, I am to repent
and reform, and place myself in the most favorable condition under
the doctors God has provided—pure air, pure water, and the healing,
precious sunlight
We Are Individually Responsible to God—Our bodies are
Christ’s purchased possession, and we are not at liberty to do with
20
The Ministry of Healing, 127
.
21
Medical Ministry, 230
.