Continual Reform Must Be Advocated
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The circulation of our health publications is a most important work.
It is a work in which all who believe the special truths for this time
should have a living interest. God desires that now, as never before,
the minds of the people shall be deeply stirred to investigate the great
temperance question and principles underlying true health reform. The
physical life is to be carefully educated, cultivated, and developed,
that through men and women the divine nature may be revealed in its
fullness. Both the physical and the mental powers, with the affections,
are to be so trained that they can reach the highest efficiency.
Reform, continual reform, must be kept before the people, and by
our example we must enforce our teachings. True religion and the laws
of health go hand in hand. It is impossible to work for the salvation of
men and women without presenting to them the need of breaking away
from sinful gratifications, which destroy the health, debase the soul,
and prevent divine truth from impressing the mind. Men and women
must be taught to take a careful review of every habit and practice, and
at once put away those things that cause an unhealthy condition of the
body, and thus cast a dark shadow over the mind.
God’s People to Be Light Bearers
God desires His people to be light bearers to a world lying in
midnight darkness. But if they refuse to go forward in the light which
He causes to shine on their pathway, the light will finally become to
them darkness; and instead of being light bearers to the world, they
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themselves will be lost in the blackness that surrounds them. God
desires His light bearers ever to keep a high standard before them.
By precept and example they must hold this perfect standard high
above Satan’s false standard, which, if followed, will lead to misery,
degradation, disease, and death for both body and soul.
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