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Counsels on Health
the wounds that sin has made in the human family, and His Spirit,
working through His servants, imparts to sin-sick, suffering human
beings a mighty healing power that is efficacious for the body and
the soul. “In that day,” says the Scripture, “there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for
sin and for uncleanness.”
Zechariah 13:1
. The waters of this fountain
contain medicinal properties that will heal both physical and spiritual
infirmities.
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From this fountain flows the mighty river seen in Ezekiel’s vision.
“These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the
desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the
waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that everything that
liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live....
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side,
shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the
fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to
his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and
the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.”
Ezekiel 47:8-12
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Such a river of life and healing God designs that, by His power
working through them, our sanitariums shall be.