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sufficient reward. When actuated by a high and noble desire to do
others good, they will find true happiness in a faithful discharge of
life’s manifold duties.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:132
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Real happiness is found only in being good and doing good.—
The
Youth’s Instructor, December 5, 1901
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Our happiness will be proportionate to our unselfish works,
prompted by divine love, for in the plan of salvation God has appointed
the law of action and reaction.—
The Signs of the Times, November
25, 1886
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Welfare Work Induces Health—Those who give practical
demonstrations of their benevolence by their sympathy and compas-
sionate acts toward the poor, and suffering, and the unfortunate, not
only relieve the sufferers, but contribute largely to their own happiness,
and are in the way of securing health of soul and body. Isaiah has ...
plainly described the work that God will accept and bless His people
in doing.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:60
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I call your attention to the sure results of heeding the Lord’s admo-
nition to care for the afflicted: “Then shall thy light break forth as the
morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily.” Is not this what
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we all crave? Oh, there is health and peace in doing the will of our
Heavenly Father. “Thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory
of the Lord shalt be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord
shall answer; thou shalt cry, and He shall say, Here I am. If thou take
away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger,
and speaking vanity; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy
darkness be as the noon day: and the Lord shall guide thee continually,
and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt
be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail
not.”—
The Medical Missionary, June, 1891
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How Welfare Work Induces Health—The pleasure of doing
good to others imparts a glow to the feelings which flashes through
the nerves, quickens the circulation of the blood, and induces mental
and physical health.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:56
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The sympathy which exists between the mind and the body is very
great. When one is affected the other responds. The condition of the
mind has much to do with the health of the physical system. If the mind
is free and happy, under a consciousness of rightdoing and a sense of