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Today Your Life and Health has taken the field.
] The crib is placed
too high. You can, with the counsel of S and Dr. W, prepare articles
that are already in print that are simple, yet full of knowledge, by
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perusing the back numbers of Health Reformer. I would today that
the Good Health were more after the same order, for I think there is
more simplicity and good religion in the Reformer, and matter that
will benefit all classes and minds, than that contained in Good Health
as a whole.
We want that Good Health shall be circulated, and we want to
shape our work and our efforts to reach the people where they are,
much in the same way Christ worked in simplicity, that the uninformed
may be reached and the highest minds may be benefited also. There
is danger of burying the truth so deep in science that the common
minds for whom we labor and who will compose the members of our
churches will fail to see it and appreciate it. We want the truth as it is
in Jesus. We want to meet the wants of our people.—
Letter 34, 1887
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Light to Shine in Leaflets and Tracts—Let all be fully prepared
to disseminate the light by word and by pamphlet. There should be
hundreds of little tracts scattered as the leaves of autumn....
There is a great need of leaflets and tracts, some containing short
articles, others presenting the messages of warning, the second advent
of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Sabbath, treated in brief, and its relation
to the truth of the doctrines substantiated by the Scriptures should
be circulated.... There is a world to be warned. Health subjects in
clear, forcible, spirited articles, health and temperance principles, and
experiences of faith and hope—all should be presented to the world.
The branch office in the city may do a good work in this line. These
silent words will make impressions on minds and will awaken an
interest in the truth of God.
Light! Light! Let it shine forth everywhere. It is to be diffused
in jots and tittles, here a little and there a little. It is to be diffused in
contrast with error. There is a dense darkness upon human minds, and
everything possible should be done to rend it away and let the true
Light shine forth.
There is too much limiting, too much setting of boundaries, alto-
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gether too much withdrawing ourselves from our own flesh.—
Letter
31, 1897
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