Violation of Physical Law
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powers are enfeebled, so that sin does not appear sinful. Crime is
lightly regarded, and passion controls the mind, until good principles
and impulses are rooted out, and God is blasphemed. All this is the
result of eating and drinking to excess. This is the very condition of
things which Christ declares will exist at His second coming.
The Saviour presents to us something higher to toil for than merely
what we shall eat and drink, and wherewithal we shall be clothed.
Eating, drinking and dressing are carried to such excess that they
become crimes. They are among the marked sins of the last days, and
constitute a sign of Christ’s soon coming. Time, money, and strength,
which belong to the Lord, but which He has entrusted to us, are wasted
in superfluities of dress and luxuries for the perverted appetite, which
lessen vitality and bring suffering and decay. It is impossible to present
our bodies a living sacrifice to God when we continually fill them with
corruption and disease by our own sinful indulgence. Knowledge must
be gained in regard to how to eat and drink and dress so as to preserve
health. Sickness is the result of violating nature’s law. Our first duty,
one which we owe to God, to ourselves, and to our fellow men, is to
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obey the laws of God. These include the laws of health.