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the side of Jesus and increase our knowledge of spiritual things and
deepen in us the holiness of Christian experience.
Testimonies for the Church 1:561
Those who treat the sick should move forward in their important
work with strong reliance upon God for His blessing to attend the
means which He has graciously provided, and to which He has in
mercy called our attention as a people, such as pure air, cleanliness,
healthful diet, proper periods of labor and repose, and the use of water.
Testimonies for the Church 1:553
When persons who have suffered much from diseases are relieved
by an intelligent system of treatment, consisting of baths, healthful
diet, proper periods of rest and exercise, and the beneficial effects of
pure air, they are often led to conclude that those who successfully
treat them are right in matters of religious faith, or at least, can not
greatly err from the truth. Thus, if our people are left to go to those
institutions whose physicians are corrupt in religious faith, they are in
danger of being ensnared.
Testimonies for the Church 1:490-491
I was shown that Sabbath-keepers should open a way for those
of like precious faith to be benefited without their being under the
necessity of expending their means at institutions where their faith
and religious principles are endangered, and where they can find no
sympathy or union in religious matters. God in His providence directed
the course of Dr. B to-----, that he might there obtain an experience
he would not otherwise have gained, for He had work for him to do
in the health reform. As a practicing physician, he had for years been
obtaining a knowledge of the human system, and God would now
have him by precept and practice learn how to apply the blessings
placed within the reach of man. He would have him become prepared
to benefit the sick, and instruct those who do not understand how to
preserve the strength and health they already have, and how to prevent
disease by a wise use of heaven’s remedies—pure water, air and diet.