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Counsels on Health
reform, and will accomplish great good in presenting these subjects in
a proper manner and in their true light to the people.
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The Lord has been sending us line upon line, and if we reject these
principles, we are not rejecting the messenger who teaches them, but
the One who has given us the principles.
Be Light Bearers
Reform, continual reform, must be kept before the people, and by
our example we must enforce our teaching. 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 view of every habit and every
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
desires His light bearers ever to keep a high standard before them.
By precept and example they must hold their perfect standard high
above Satan’s false standard, which, if followed, will lead to misery,
degradation, disease, and death for both body and soul. Let those who
have obtained a knowledge of how to eat and drink and dress so as to
preserve health, impart this knowledge to others. Let the poor have the
gospel of health preached unto them from a practical point of view,
that they may know how to care properly for the body, which is the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
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