Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

I was shown that Brethren A, B, and C were in danger of injuring their health byremaining a considerable part of their time in heated rooms not sufficiently ventilated.These brethren need more physical exercise. Their employment is sedentary, and toomuch of the time they breathe heated, impure air. Their lack of exercise causes adepressed circulation, and they are in danger of injuring their health permanently byneglecting to heed the laws of their being. If they violate these laws they will at somefuture period just as surely suffer the penalty in some form as my husband has sufferedit. They will be sustained no more than was he. No one of them is capable of enduringeven a small part of the physical and mental taxation which he endured.These brethren take the work with the heaviest battles fought, the sorest trialspassed through, to establish the cause in its present standing. And yet a great andsolemn work is before us, and it calls for devotedness from them and also from BrotherD, who is in danger of exaltation. God will prove him and try him, and he must begirded about with truth and have on the armor of righteousness, or he will fall by thehand of the enemy. All these brethren need to adhere most strictly and perseveringlyto a healthful, spare diet, for all are in danger of congested brains, and paralysis mayfell one or more or all of them, if they continue living carelessly or recklessly.I saw that God had specially selected Brother B to engage in a great and exaltedwork. He would have cares and burdens, and yet all these could be so much moreeasily borne with true devotion and consecration to the work. Brother B, you needa deeper draft from salvation’s fountain, a more thorough draft from the fountain ofsanctification. Your will has not yet been fully submitted to the will of God. You moveon because you think you cannot do otherwise; but to walk in cheerful light becauseyou can see that Christ Jesus leads the588