Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

Chapter 7
Neglect of Health Reform
Dear Brother and Sister I: The Lord has shown
some things in regard to you which I feel it a duty
to write. You were among the number who were
presented before me as backward in health reform.
Light has shone upon the pathway in which the
people of God are traveling, yet all do not walk in
the light and follow as fast as the providence of
God marks out and opens the way before them.
Until they do this, they will be in darkness. If God
has spoken to His people, He designs that they
shall hear and obey His voice. Last Sabbath, as I
was speaking, your pale faces rose distinctly before
me as I had been shown them. I saw your condition
of health and the ailments you have suffered under
so long. I was shown that you have not lived
healthfully. Your appetites have been unhealthy,
and you have gratified the taste at the expense of
the stomach. You have taken into your stomachs
articles which it is impossible to convert into good
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