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True Education
The student of physiology should be taught that the object of
study is not merely to gain a knowledge of facts and principles. This
alone will prove of little benefit. We may understand the importance
of ventilation, our room may be supplied with pure air, but unless we
fill our lungs properly we will suffer the results of poor respiration.
The great requisite in teaching these principles is to impress students
with their importance so that they will conscientiously put them into
practice.
Let students be impressed with the thought that the body is a
temple in which God desires to dwell, that it must be kept pure, the
abiding place of high and noble thoughts. As they study physiol-
ogy and see that they are indeed “fearfully and wonderfully made”
(
Psalm 139:14
), they will be inspired with reverence. Instead of mar-
ring God’s handiwork, they will have an ambition to make all that is
possible of themselves, in order to fulfill the Creator’s glorious plan.
Thus they will come to regard obedience to the laws of health, not as
a matter of sacrifice or self-denial, but as it really is, an inestimable
privilege and blessing.
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