Reasons for Reform
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confine yourself to a simple diet, which will preserve you in the best
condition of health is a task to you. Had you lived up to the light which
heaven has permitted to shine upon your pathway, much suffering
might have been saved your family. Your own course of action has
brought the sure result. While you continue in this course God will not
come into your family, and especially bless you, and work a miracle
to save your family from suffering. A plain diet, free from spices,
and flesh-meats, and grease of all kinds, would prove a blessing to
you, and would save your wife a great amount of suffering, grief and
despondency.
Manuscript 50, 1904
I accepted the light on health reform as it came to me. It has been
a great blessing to me. I have better health today, notwithstanding I
am seventy-six years old, than I had in my younger days. I thank God
for the principles of health reform, and if there are any here today who
have back-slidden in this respect, I say to them that God calls upon
them to be converted, and to take their position in accordance with
the light He has given. In denying perverted appetite, you will place
yourself where God can co-operate with you.
Testimonies for the Church 2:60
The light has been shining upon your pathway in regard to health
reform, and the duty resting upon God’s people in these last days to
exercise temperance in all things. You, I saw, were among the number
who would be backward to see the light, and correct your manner of
eating, and drinking and working. As the light of truth is received
and followed out, it will work an entire reformation in the life and
character of all those who are sanctified through it.
Testimonies for the Church 2:66-67
Dear Brother and Sister I,
The Lord has shown some things in regard to you which I feel it a
duty to write. You were among the number who were presented before
me as backward in health reform. Light has shone upon the pathway in
which the people of God are traveling, yet all do not walk in the light
and follow as fast as the providence of God marks out and opens the