Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

The Folly of Ignorance
To make natural law plain, and to urge
obedience to it, is a work that accompanies the
third angel’s message. Ignorance is no excuse now
for the transgression of law. The light shines
clearly, and none need be ignorant; for the great
God Himself is man’s instructor. All are bound by
the most sacred obligations to heed the sound
philosophy and genuine experience which God is
now giving them in reference to health reform. He
designs that the subject shall be agitated and the
public mind deeply stirred to investigate it; for it is
impossible for men and women, while under the
power of sinful, health-destroying, brainenervating
habits, to appreciate sacred truth.
Those who are willing to inform themselves
concerning the effect which sinful indulgence has
upon the health and who begin the work of reform,
even from selfish motives, may in so doing place
themselves where the truth of God can reach their
hearts. And, on the other hand, those who have
been reached by the presentation of Scripture truth,
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