Health Reform and the Third Angel’s Message
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blind to the movements which are taking place, preparing the way for
the plagues which God will permit to come upon the world. God’s
faithful watchmen must give the warning....
Health reform is to stand out more prominently in the proclamation
of the third angel’s message. The principles of health reform are found
in the word of God. The gospel of health is to be firmly linked with the
ministry of the word. It is the Lord’s design that the restoring influence
of health reform shall be a part of the last great effort to proclaim the
gospel message.
Our physicians are to be God’s workers. They are to be men whose
powers have been sanctified and transformed by the grace of Christ.
Their influence is to be knit up with the truth that is to be given to the
world. In perfect and complete unity with the gospel ministry, the work
of health reform will reveal its God-given power. Under the influence
of the gospel, great reforms will be made by medical missionary work.
But separate medical missionary work from the gospel, and the work
will be crippled.—
Manuscript 23, 1901
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106. Our sanitariums and our churches may reach a higher, holier
standard. Health reform is to be taught and practiced by our people.
The Lord is calling for a revival of the principles of health reform.
Seventh-day Adventists have a special work to do as messengers to
labor for the souls and bodies of men.
Christ has said of His people, “Ye are the light of the world.” We
are the Lord’s denominated people, to proclaim the truths of heavenly
origin. The most solemn, sacred work ever given to mortals is the
proclamation of the first, second, and third angel’s messages to our
world. In our large cities there should be health institutes to care for
the sick, and to teach the grand principles of health reform.—
Letter
146, 1909
An Entering Wedge
107. 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 the byways.—
Letter 203, 1905
108. I can see in the Lord’s providence that the medical missionary
work is to be a great entering wedge, whereby the diseased soul may
be reached.—[
Tract
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Counsels on Health, 535, 1893