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

lood. This has laid a heavy tax on the liver, for the
reason that the digestive organs are deranged. You
both have diseased livers. The health reform would
be a great benefit to you both if you would strictly
carry it out. This you have failed to do. Your
appetites are morbid, and because you do not relish
a plain, simple diet, composed of unbolted wheat
flour, vegetables and fruits prepared without spices
or grease, you are continually transgressing the
laws which God has established in your system.
While you do this you must suffer the penalty, for
to every transgression is affixed a penalty. Yet you
wonder at your continued poor health.
Be assured that God will not work a miracle to
save you from the result of your own course of
action. You have not had a liberal supply of air.
Brother I has labored in his store, closely applying
himself to his business and allowing himself but a
limited amount of air and exercise. His circulation
is depressed. He breathes only from the top of his
lungs. It is seldom that he exercises the abdominal
muscles in the act of breathing. Stomach, liver,
lungs, and brain are suffering for the want of deep,
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