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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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Lord.” Isaiah 52:11.<br />

God requires purity of heart and pers<strong>on</strong>al<br />

cleanliness now, as when He gave the special<br />

directi<strong>on</strong>s to the children of Israel. If God was so<br />

particular to enjoin cleanliness up<strong>on</strong> those<br />

journeying in the wilderness, who were in the open<br />

air nearly all the time, He requires no less of us<br />

who live in ceiled houses, where impurities are<br />

more observable and have a more unhealthful<br />

influence.<br />

Tobacco Using C<strong>on</strong>trary to Godliness<br />

[The Review and Herald, January 25, 1881.] As<br />

I have seen men who claimed to enjoy the blessing<br />

of entire satisfacti<strong>on</strong>, while they were slaves to<br />

tobacco, spitting and defiling everything around<br />

them, I have thought, How would heaven appear<br />

with tobacco users in it? The lips that were taking<br />

the precious name of Christ were defiled by<br />

tobacco spittle, the breath was polluted with the<br />

stench, and even the linen was defiled; the soul that<br />

loved this uncleanness and enjoyed this pois<strong>on</strong>ous<br />

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