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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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had any direct influence in quenching the vital<br />

spark.<br />

When standing by the graves of their children,<br />

the afflicted parents look up<strong>on</strong> their bereavement<br />

as a special dispensati<strong>on</strong> of Providence, when, by<br />

inexcusable ignorance, their own course has<br />

destroyed the lives of their children. To then charge<br />

their death to Providence is blasphemy. God<br />

wanted the little <strong>on</strong>es to live and be disciplined,<br />

that they might have beautiful characters and<br />

glorify Him in this world and praise Him in the<br />

better world.<br />

Ignorance of Nature’s Requirements<br />

Parents and teachers, in taking the<br />

resp<strong>on</strong>sibility of training these children, do not feel<br />

their accountability before God to become<br />

acquainted with the physical organism, that they<br />

may treat the bodies of their children and pupils in<br />

a manner to preserve life and health. Thousands of<br />

children die because of the ignorance of parents<br />

and teachers. Mothers will spend hours over<br />

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