Chapter IX. - Health Reform. Light Given. 109. The Lord has given his people a message in regard to health reform. This light has been shining upon their pathway for thirty years, and the Lord cannot sustain his servants in a course which will counteract it. . . . Can he be pleased when half the workers laboring in a place teach that the principles of health reform are as closely allied to the third angels message as the arm is to the body, to have their co-workers, by their practise, teach principles that are entirely opposite? . . . The light which God has given upon health reform cannot be trifled with without injury to those who attempt it; and no man can hope to succeed in the work of God while, by precept and example, he acts in opposition to the light which God has sent.-- Special Testimony for Ministers and Workers, No. 7, p. 40. {HL 32.1} 110. No man, woman, or child who fails to use all the powers God has given him can retain his health. He cannot conscientiously keep the commandments of God. He cannot love God supremely and his neighbor as himself.-- U. T., Sept. 17, 1897. {HL 32.2} 111. We begin to comprehend better the light given years ago,--that health reform principles would be as an entering wedge to be followed by a religious influence.-- U. T., Nov. 19, 1895. 33 {HL 32.3} 112. Your interest and effort are to be given, not to the health question alone, but to making known the truths for these last times, truths that are deciding the destiny of souls.-- U. T., May 29, 1896. {HL 33.1} Common Sense in Health Reform. 113. There is real common sense in health reform. -- C. T., p. 57. {HL 33.2} 114. The principles of health reform have the highest authority, and deserve a wider sphere than has yet been given them by many who profess present truth.-- U. T., Nov. 8, 1896. {HL 33.3} 115. Gods way is to make man something he is not; Gods plan is to set man to work in reformatory lines; then he will learn by experience how long he has pampered fleshly appetites, and ministered to his own temperament, bringing weakness upon himself.-- U. T., Oct. 12, 1896. {HL 33.4} 116. There are those who have stood directly in the way of the advance of health reform. They have held the people back by their indifferent or depreciatory remarks, and their supposed pleasantries and jokes. . . . Had all walked unitedly in the light, from the time it was first given on the subject, there would have been an army of sensible arguments employed to vindicate the work of God. But it has only been by the most aggressive movements that any advance has been made. . . . {HL 33.5}
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