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the field. They thought that our work with the Watchman should be
confined to the Southern States.
Some were greatly astonished at these propositions. One of au-
thority arose and said, The Lord God of Israel sees the selfishness of
the human heart. Let those who are interested in our two elder papers
beware of allowing selfish plans to find a place in their work. The
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Watchman is to have a place in the field at large. It bears the message
of truth as verily as do the Review and the Signs of the Times. You are
to be careful not to hinder the Watchman in its work....
A Work to do—Let those who have had success in the circulation
of the Signs and Review remember that the Watchman also has a work
to do. It will accomplish much good if it is given an opportunity to
do its appointed work in all parts of the world. Its field is wherever
subscribers can be found for it.—
Letter 351, 1904
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Our Health Journals—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 the 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
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women must be taught to take a careful review 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 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
themselves will be lost in the blackness that surrounds them. God