Reasons for Reform
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Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 22)
God the Creator of our bodies, has arranged every fiber and nerve
and sinew and muscle, and has pledged Himself to keep the machinery
in order if the human agent will cooperate with Him and refuse to
work contrary to the laws which govern the human system.
The Health Reformer, August 1, 1866 (Healthful Living, 22)
A careful conformity to the laws which God has implanted in our
being will insure health, and there will not be a breaking down of the
constitution.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 20)
God’s law is written by His own finger upon every nerve, every
muscle, every faculty which has been entrusted to man.
Unpublished Testimonies, May 19, 1897 (Healthful Living, 11)
The obligation we owe to God in presenting to Him clean, pure,
healthy bodies is not comprehended.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 18)
God is greatly dishonored by the way in which man treats his
organism, and He will not work a miracle to counteract a perverse
violation of the laws of life and health.
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896 (Healthful Living, 9)
The living organism is God’s property. It belongs to Him by
creation and by redemption; and by a misuse of any of our powers we
rob God of the honor due Him.
Special Testimonies for Ministers and Workers 7, 40 (Healthful
Living, 32)
The Lord has given His people a message in regard to health reform.
This light has been shining upon their pathway for thirty years, and the
Lord can not sustain His servants in a course which will counteract it....
Can He be pleased when half the workers laboring in a place teach that
the principles of health reform are as closely allied to the third angel’s