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The Ministry of Health and Healing
invalids can resist disease simply by refusing to yield to ailments and
being inactive. Rising above their aches and pains, let them engage
in useful employment suited to their strength. By such employment
and the free use of air and sunlight, many an emaciated invalid might
recover health and strength.
Bible Principles of Cure
For those who would regain or preserve health there is a lesson
in the words of Scripture, “Do not be drunk with wine, in which
is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit.”
Ephesians 5:18
. Not
through the excitement or oblivion produced by unnatural or un-
healthful stimulants, not through indulgence of the lower appetites
or passions is to be found true healing or refreshment for body or
soul. Among the sick are many who are without God and without
hope. They suffer from ungratified desires, disordered passions, and
a condemning conscience. They are losing their hold on this life,
and they have no prospect for the life to come.
Care givers should not hope to benefit these patients by granting
them frivolous, exciting indulgences. These have been the curse of
their lives. The hungry, thirsting soul will continue to hunger and
thirst so long as it seeks to find satisfaction here. Those who drink at
the fountain of selfish pleasure are deceived. They mistake hilarity
for strength, and when the excitement ceases, their inspiration ends
and they are left to discontent and despondency.
Abiding peace, true rest of spirit, has but one Source. Christ
spoke of this when He said, “‘Come to Me, all you who labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.’”
Matthew 11:28
. “‘Peace
I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I
give to you.’”
John 14:27
. This peace is not something that He gives
apart from Himself. It is in Christ, and we can receive it only by
receiving Him.
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Christ is the wellspring of life. That which many need is to have
a clearer knowledge of Him. Patiently and kindly, yet earnestly,
they need to be taught how the whole being may be thrown open to
the healing agencies of Heaven. When the sunlight of God’s love
illuminates the darkened chambers of the soul, restless fatigue and