Chapter 6—Teaching Health Principles
Extent of the Work
God has qualified His people to enlighten the world. He has
entrusted them with faculties by which they are to extend His work
until it shall encircle the globe. In all parts of the earth, they are to
establish sanitariums, schools, publishing houses, and kindred facilities
for the accomplishment of His work.
The closing message of the gospel is to be carried to “every nation,
and kindred, and tongue, and people.”
Revelation 14:6
. In foreign
countries many enterprises for the advancement of this message must
yet be begun and carried forward. The opening of hygienic restaurants
and treatment rooms, and the establishment of sanitariums for the
care of the sick and the suffering, is just as necessary in Europe as in
America. In many lands medical missions are to be established to act
as God’s helping hand in ministering to the afflicted.—
Testimonies
for the Church 7:51
.
Educate, Educate, Educate
We must educate, educate, educate, pleasantly and intelligently.
We must preach the truth, pray the truth, and live the truth, bringing
it, with its gracious, health-giving influences within the reach of those
who know it not. As the sick are brought into touch with the Life-giver,
their faculties of mind and body will be renewed. But in order for this
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to be, they must practice self-denial and be temperate in all things.
Thus only can they be saved from physical and spiritual death and
restored to health.—
Medical Ministry, 262
.
If we would elevate the moral standard in any country where we
may be called to go, we must begin by correcting their physical habits.
Virtue of character depends upon the right action of the powers of the
mind and body.—
Counsels on Health, 505
.
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