Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

while their physical, mental, and moral energies are enfeebled through gratificationof depraved appetite and excessive labor, how can they weigh the evidences of truthand comprehend the requirements of God? If their moral and intellectual faculties arebeclouded, they cannot appreciate the value of the atonement or the exalted character ofthe work of God, nor delight in the study of His word. How can a nervous dyspeptic beready always to give an answer to every man that asketh him a reason of the hope thatis in him, with meekness and fear? How soon would such a one become confused andagitated, and by his diseased imagination be led to view matters in altogether a wronglight, and by a lack of that meekness and calmness which characterized the life ofChrist be caused to dishonor his profession while contending with unreasonable men?Viewing matters from a high religious standpoint, we must be thorough reformers inorder to be Christlike.I saw that our heavenly Father has bestowed upon us the great blessing of lightupon the health reform that we may obey the claims which He has upon us and glorifyHim in our bodies and spirits which are His and finally stand without fault before thethrone of God. Our faith requires us to elevate the standard and take advance steps.While many question the course pursued by other health reformers, they as reasonablemen should do something themselves. Our race is in a deplorable condition, sufferingfrom disease of every description. Many have inherited disease and are great sufferersbecause of the wrong habits of their parents, and yet they pursue the same wrong coursein regard to themselves and their children which was pursued toward them. They areignorant in regard to themselves. They are sick and do not know that their own wronghabits are causing them immense suffering.There are but few as yet who are aroused sufficiently to488