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Counsels on Diet and Foods
of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of
God.”
Our health institutions are established to present the living princi-
ples of a clean, pure, healthful diet. The knowledge must be imparted in
regard to self-denial, self-control. Jesus, who made man and redeemed
man, is to be held up before all who shall come to our institutions.
The knowledge of the way of life, peace, health, must be given line
upon line, precept upon precept, that men and women may see the
need of reform. They must be led to renounce the debasing customs
and practices which existed in Sodom and in the antediluvian world,
which God destroyed because of their iniquity. (
Matthew 24:37-39
.) ...
All who shall visit our health institutions are to be educated. The
plan of redemption should be brought before all, high and low, rich
and poor. Carefully prepared instruction is to be given, that indulgence
in fashionable intemperance in eating and drinking may be seen as the
cause of disease and suffering and of evil practices that follow as a
result.—
Manuscript 1, 1888
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Leaves From the Tree of Life
772. I have been instructed that we are not to delay to do the work
that needs to be done in health reform lines. Through this work we are
to reach souls in the highways and byways. I have been given special
light that in our sanitariums many souls will receive and obey present
truth. In these institutions men and women are to be taught how to
care for their own bodies, and at the same time how to become sound
in the faith. They are to be taught what is meant by eating the flesh
and drinking the blood of the Son of God. Said Christ, “The words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
John 6:63
.
Our sanitariums are to be schools in which instruction shall be
given in medical missionary lines. They are to bring to sin-sick souls
the leaves of the tree of life, which will restore to them peace and hope
and faith in Christ Jesus.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:168, 1909