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and excesses of fashionable life, a life that weakens and destroys the
powers of body, mind, and soul....
Plans should be devised for keeping patients out-of-doors. For
those who are able to work, let some pleasant, easy employment be
provided. Show them how agreeable and helpful this outdoor work is.
Encourage them to breathe the fresh air. Teach them to breath deeply,
and in breathing and speaking to exercise the abdominal muscles. This
is an education that will be invaluable to them.
Testimonies for the Church 5:443
There are many ways of practicing the healing art; but there is
only one way that Heaven approves. God’s remedies are the simple
agencies of nature, that will not tax or debilitate the system through
their powerful properties. Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper
diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God, are remedies for the want
of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date
because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appre-
ciate. Fresh air, exercise, pure water, and clean, sweet premises, are
within the reach of all, with but little expense; but drugs are expensive,
both in the outlay of means, and the effect produced upon the system.
The Ministry of Healing, 231-233
Those who seek healing by prayer should not neglect to make use
of the remedial agencies within their reach. It is not a denial of faith
to use such remedies as God has provided to alleviate pain and to aid
nature in her work of restoration. It is no denial of faith to co-operate
with God, and to place themselves in the condition most favorable
to recovery. God has put it in our power to obtain a knowledge of
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the laws of life. This knowledge has been placed within our reach
for use. We should employ every facility for the restoration of health,
taking every advantage possible, working in harmony with natural
laws. When we have prayed for the recovery of the sick, we can work
with all the more energy, thanking God that we have the privilege of
cooperating with Him, and asking His blessing on the means which
He Himself has provided.
We have the sanction of the word of God for the use of remedial
agencies....