Health Reform and the Third Angel’s Message
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power. Under the influence of the gospel, great reforms will be made
by medical missionary work. But separate medical missionary work
from the gospel, and the work will be crippled.
Letter K 146, 1909
Our sanitariums and our churches may reach a higher, holier stan-
dard. Health reform is to be taught and practiced by our people. The
Lord is calling for a revival of the principles of health reform. Seventh-
day Adventists have a special work to do as messengers to labor for
the souls and bodies of men.
Christ has said of His people, “Ye are the light of the world.” We
are the Lord’s denominated people, to proclaim the truths of heavenly
origin. The most solemn, sacred work ever given to mortals is the
proclamation of the first, second, and third angel’s messages to our
world. In our large cities there should be health institutes to care for
the sick, and to teach the grand principles of health reform.
Testimonies for the Church 3:161
December 10, 1871, I was again shown that the health reform is
one branch of the great work which is to fit a people for the coming
of the Lord. It is as closely connected with the third angel’s message
as the hand is with the body. The law of ten commandments has
been lightly regarded by man; but the Lord would not come to punish
the transgressors of that law without first sending them a message of
warning. The third angel proclaims that message. Had men ever been
obedient to the law of ten commandments, carrying out in their lives
the principles of those precepts, the curse of disease now flooding the
world would not be.
Men and women cannot violate natural law by indulging depraved
appetite and lustful passions, and not violate the law of God. Therefore,
He has permitted the light of health reform to shine upon us, that we
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may see our sin in violating the laws which He has established in our
being. All our enjoyment or suffering may be traced to obedience
or transgression of natural law. Our gracious heavenly Father sees
the deplorable condition of men, who, some knowingly, but many
ignorantly, are living in violation of the laws that He has established.
And in love and pity to the race, He causes the light to shine upon