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Healthful Living
216. Sickness and premature death do not come without a cause.—
How to Live, 61
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God not Responsible for Disease
217. When standing by the graves of their children, the afflicted
parents look upon their bereavement as a special dispensation of Prov-
idence, when by inexcusable ignorance their own course has destroyed
the lives of their children. To then charge their death to Providence is
blasphemy.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:136
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218. They should not charge the result of their own sinful course
upon our gracious and merciful Heavenly Father. He doth not willingly
afflict or grieve the children of men.—
The Health Reformer, January
1, 1873
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219. Mothers are slow to learn that the suffering and death of
their children is the result of their own course. They do not become
intelligent upon the subject of how to live to prevent disease and
premature death. What a thought! Mothers are the murderers of
their own children, and are mourning over their death, and are trying
hard to be reconciled to Providence, which they think has bereaved
them.—
The Health Reformer, January 1, 1873
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