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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Adam’s Defeat—Christ’s Victory
Adam and Eve fell through intemperate appetite. Christ came
and withstood the fiercest temptation of Satan, and, in behalf of the
race, overcame appetite, showing that man may overcome. As Adam
fell through appetite, and lost blissful Eden, the children of Adam
may, through Christ, overcome appetite, and through temperance in
all things regain Eden.
Aids in Discerning Truth
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
giving them in reference to health reform. He designs that the great
subject of health reform shall be agitated, and the public mind deeply
stirred to investigate; for it is impossible for men and women, with
all their sinful, health-destroying, brain-enervating habits, to discern
sacred truth, through which they are to be sanctified, refined, elevated,
and made fit for the society of heavenly angels in the kingdom of
glory....
Sanctified or Punished
The apostle Paul exhorts the church, “I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Men, then, can make their bodies unholy by sinful indulgences. If
unholy, they are unfitted to be spiritual worshipers, and are not worthy
of heaven. If man will cherish the light that God in mercy gives him
upon health reform, he may be sanctified through the truth, and fitted
for immortality. But if he disregards that light, and lives in violation
of natural law, he must pay the penalty.
Work of Elijah and John a Type
98. For years the Lord has been calling the attention of His people
to health reform. This is one of the great branches of the work of
preparation for the coming of the Son of man. John the Baptist went
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forth in the spirit and power of Elijah, to prepare the way of the