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relating to health and temperance could be placed in many homes.
The circulation of these books is an important work, for they contain
precious knowledge in regard to the treatment of disease—knowledge
that would be a great blessing to those who cannot afford to pay for
the physician’s visits.—
Manuscript 119, 1901
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“Do Not Wait to Be Told Your Duty.”—Do not wait to be told
your duty. Open your eyes and see who are around you; make your-
selves acquainted with the helpless, afflicted, and needy. Hide not
yourselves from them and seek not to shut out their needs. Who gives
the proofs mentioned in James, of possessing pure religion, untainted
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with selfishness or corruption?—
Testimonies for the Church 2:29
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Break the Spell: “Go to Work, Whether You Feel Like It or
Not.”—My brethren and sisters, do you desire to break the spell that
holds you? Would you arouse from this sluggishness that resembles
the torpor of death? Go to work, whether you feel like it or not. Engage
in personal effort to bring souls to Jesus and the knowledge of the
truth. In such labor you will find both a stimulus and a tonic; it will
both arouse and strengthen. By exercise your spiritual powers will
become more vigorous, so that you can with better success work out
your own salvation. The stupor of death is upon many who profess
Christ. Make every effort to arouse them. Warn, entreat, expostulate.
Pray that the melting love of God may warm and soften their icebound
natures. Though they may refuse to hear, your labor will not be lost. In
the effort to bless others your own souls will be blessed.—
Testimonies
for the Church 5:387
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Carrying the Atmosphere of Heaven—Visiting the sick, com-
forting the poor and the sorrowful for Christ’s sake, will bring to the
workers the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness, and even the
countenance will express the peace that dwells in the soul. The faces
of men and women who talk with God, to whom the invisible world
is a reality, express the peace of God. They carry with them the soft
and genial atmosphere of heaven, and diffuse it in deeds of kindness
and works of love. Their influence is of a character to win souls to
Christ. If all could see and understand, and be doers of the words of
God, what peace, what happiness, what health of body and peace of
soul, would be the result! A warm, kindly atmosphere of love, the
pitying tenderness of Christ in the soul cannot be estimated. The price
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