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Section 14—Teaching Health Principles
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Life-giver their faculties of mind and body will be renewed. But in
order for this 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.
When the human machinery moves in harmony with the life-
giving arrangements of God, as brought to light through the gospel,
disease is overcome and health springs forth speedily. When human
beings work in union with the Life-giver, who offered up His life
for them, happy thoughts fill the mind. Body and mind and soul are
sanctified. Human beings learn of the Great Teacher, and all upon
which they look ennobles and enriches the thoughts. The affections
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are drawn out in gladness and thankfulness to the Creator. The life
of the man who is renewed in the image of Christ is as a light shining
in darkness.—
Letter 83, 1905
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Deeds of Ministry
To teachers in our schools, to ministers and physicians and
nurses, I would say, If you will, you can succeed in revealing the
truths of the third angel’s message. This will not be done merely
by preaching the word, but by the deeds of loving ministry. It is the
spirit of the word that we so greatly need. Those who have the spirit
of Christ will work His works.
I have been instructed to refer our people to the fifty-eighth
chapter of Isaiah. Read this chapter carefully and understand the
kind of ministry that will bring life into the churches. The work of
the gospel is to be carried by means of our liberality as well as by
our labors. When you meet suffering souls who need help, give it
them. When you find those who are hungry, feed them. In doing
this you will be working in lines of Christ’s ministry. The Master’s
holy work was a benevolent work. Let our people everywhere be
encouraged to have a part in it.—
Manuscript 7, 1908.
Teach Self-Denial
The work you have been doing in the cities is meeting heaven’s
approval.... What you have done demonstrates that if our physicians
and our ministers can work together in the presentation of truth to