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way before them. Until they do this they will be in darkness. If God
has spoken to His people, He designs that they shall hear and obey His
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voice. Last Sabbath, as I was speaking, your pale faces rose distinctly
before me as I had been shown them. I saw your condition of health,
and the ailments you have suffered under so long. I was shown that
you have not lived healthfully. Your appetites have been unhealthy and
you have gratified the taste at the expense of the stomach. You have
taken into your stomachs articles which it is impossible to convert
into good blood. This has laid a heavy tax on the liver, for the reason
that the digestive organs are deranged. You both have diseased livers.
The health reform would be a great benefit to you both, if you would
strictly carry it out. This you have failed to do. Your appetites are
morbid, and because you do not relish a plain, simple diet, composed
of unbolted wheat flour, vegetables and fruits prepared without spices
or grease, you are continually transgressing the laws which God has
established in your system. While you do this, you must suffer the
penalty; for to every transgression is affixed a penalty. Yet you wonder
at your continued poor health.
Be assured that God will not work a miracle to save you from the
result of your own course of action.
Testimonies for the Church 2:70-71
It is a duty to know how to preserve the body in the very best
condition of health, and it is a sacred duty to live up to the light which
God has graciously given. If we close our eyes to the light for fear
we shall see our wrongs, which we are unwilling to forsake, our sins
are not lessened, but increased. If light is turned from in one case, it
will be disregarded in another. It is just as much sin to violate the laws
of our being as to break one of the ten commandments, for we can
not do either without breaking God’s law. We can not love the Lord
with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, while we are loving our
appetites, our tastes, a great deal better than we love the Lord. We are
daily lessening our strength to glorify God, when He requires all our
strength, all our mind. By our wrong habits we are lessening our hold
on life, and yet professing to be Christ’s followers, preparing for the
finishing touch of immortality.