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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
health reform. He publishes His law, and the penalty that will follow
the transgression of it, that all may learn and be careful to live in
harmony with natural law. He proclaims His law so distinctly, and
makes it so prominent, that it is like a city set on a hill. All accountable
beings can understand it if they will. Idiots will not be responsible.
To make plain natural law, and urge the obedience of it, is the work
that accompanies the third angel’s message, to prepare a people for
the coming of the Lord.
Testimonies for the Church 4:30
A continual transgression of nature’s laws is a continual transgres-
sion of the law of God. The present weight of suffering and anguish
which we see everywhere, the present deformity, decrepitude, disease,
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and imbecility now flooding the world, make it, in comparison to what
it might be and what God designed it should be, a lazar-house; and the
present generation are feeble in mental, moral and physical power. All
this misery has accumulated from generation to generation because
fallen man will break the law of God. Sins of the greatest magnitude
are committed through the indulgence of perverted appetite.
Testimonies for the Church 4:417
Excessive indulgence in eating, drinking, sleeping, or seeing, is
sin. The harmonious healthy action of all the powers of body and mind
results in happiness; and the more elevated and refined the powers, the
more pure and unalloyed the happiness.
Testimonies for the Church 3:162-163
Ignorance is no excuse now for the transgression of law. The light
shines clearly, and none need be ignorant, for the great God Himself is
man’s instructor. All are bound by the most sacred obligations to God
to heed the sound philosophy and genuine experience which He is now