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satisfaction in causing happiness to others, it will create a cheerfulness
that will react upon the whole system, causing a freer circulation of
the blood and a toning up of the entire body. The blessing of God is
a healer, and those who are abundant in benefiting others will realize
that wondrous blessing in their hearts and lives.—
Testimonies for the
Church 4:60
.
A Remedy for Disease—Some plead their poor health—they
would love to do if they had strength. Such have so long shut them-
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selves up to themselves and thought so much of their own poor feelings
and talked so much of their sufferings, trials, and afflictions that it is
their present truth. They can think of no one but self, however much
others may be in need of sympathy and assistance. You who are suf-
fering with poor health, there is a remedy for you. If thou clothe the
naked, and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house, and deal thy
bread to the hungry, “then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily.” Doing good is an excellent
remedy for disease. Those who engage in the work are invited to call
upon God, and He has pledged Himself to answer them. Their soul
shall be satisfied in drought, and they shall be like a watered garden,
whose waters fail not.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:29
.
This is the recipe that Christ has prescribed for the fainthearted,
doubting, trembling soul. Let the sorrowful ones, who walk mournfully
before the Lord, arise and help someone who needs help.—
Testimonies
for the Church 6:266
.
Sympathy Productive of Much Good—When human sympathy
is blended with love and benevolence and sanctified by the Spirit of
Jesus, it is an element which can be productive of great good. Those
who cultivate benevolence are not only doing a good work for others
and blessing those who receive the good action, but they are benefiting
themselves by opening their hearts to the benign influence of true
benevolence. Every ray of light shed upon others will be reflected
upon our own hearts. Every kind and sympathizing word spoken to the
sorrowful, every act to relieve the oppressed, and every gift to supply
the necessities of our fellow beings, given or done with an eye to God’s
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glory, will result in blessings to the giver. Those who are thus working
are obeying a law of heaven and will receive the approval of God....
Jesus knew the influence of benevolence upon the heart and life
of the benefactor, and He sought to impress upon the minds of His