Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

for spiritual help? Why cannot you, my brother, my sister, entertain the hope that if you
accept Christ, He will add His blessing to the agencies employed for your restoration to
health? Why cannot you have faith to believe that He will cooperate with your efforts to
recover, because He wants you to get well? He wants you to have a clear brain so that
you can appreciate eternal realities; He wants you to have healthful sinews and
muscles so that you can glorify His name by using your strength in His service.--MS 80,
1903. {2MCP 409.4}
Counsel to One Prone to Melancholy Feelings.--It is your duty to war against
oppressive thoughts and
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melancholy feelings, just as much as it is your duty to pray. It is your duty to
counterwork the agencies of the enemy, to place a firm hold upon the bridle of your
tongue as well as your thoughts. Of all the times in your life when you need a supply of
grace, it is when the sensitive, inflamed digestive organs are at work and you are
worried and tired out. {2MCP 409.5}
You may look surprised at this, but it is a species of swearing to be constantly
irritated and irritating others by your faultfinding and gloomy reflections. These fits of
indigestion are trying, but hold fast to the bridle that you will not swear to those who are
your best friends or to those who are your enemies.--Lt 11, 1897. {2MCP 410.1}
Assurance of God's Approval.--The assurance of God's approval will promote
physical health. It fortifies the soul against doubt, perplexity, and excessive grief that so
often sap the vital forces and induce nervous diseases of a most debilitating and
distressing character. The Lord has pledged His unfailing word that His eye shall be
over the righteous and His ear open to their prayer.--LS 270, 271 (1915). {2MCP 410.2}
Connection Between Sin and Disease.--There is a divinely appointed connection
between sin and disease. No physician can practice for a month without seeing this
illustrated. He may ignore the fact; his mind may be so occupied with other matters that
his attention will not be called to it; but if he will be observing and honest, he cannot
help acknowledging that sin and disease bear to each other the relationship of cause
and effect. The physician should be quick to see this and to act accordingly. {2MCP
410.3}
When he has gained the confidence of the afflicted by relieving their sufferings and
bringing them back from the verge of the grave he may teach them that disease is the
result of sin and that it is the fallen foe who seeks to allure them to
health-and-soul-destroying practices. He may impress their minds with the necessity of
denying
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self and obeying the laws of life and health. In the minds of the young especially he