Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

stands without a peer. She it was who exalted the
sacredness of the body and the necessity of
bringing all the appetites and passions under the
control of an enlightened conscience. Others
emphasized science in health; to her it was left to
impress the spiritual in the treatment of the temple
of the body.
No other one of modern day has entered this
field of spiritual endeavor to anything like the
extent she did. Her efforts were tireless from the
days of her young womanhood to the hour of her
death at a very advanced age. In
books, in magazine articles, in papers, in tracts
and pamphlets, she constantly and unswervingly
called men and women, old and young, in clarion
tones, to a more rational, a higher, purer plane of
spiritual living. From the platform in churches and
lecture halls, at convocations and conferences, her
voice was continually heard urging the need of
consecrated, Christian living in things relating to
the body and its care. Others brought to light
scientific facts concerning disease, its cause, and
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