Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

wrong, they should change their course, and place
themselves by correct habits in a better relation to
health.
Men and women should inform themselves in
regard to the philosophy of health. The minds of
rational beings seem shrouded in darkness in
regard to their own physical structure, and how to
preserve it in a healthy condition. The present
generation have trusted their bodies with the
doctors and their souls with the ministers. Do they
not pay the minister well for studying the Bible for
them, that they need not be to the trouble? and is it
not his business to tell them what they must
believe, and to settle all doubtful questions of
theology without special investigation on their
part? If they are sick, they send for the doctor—
believe whatever he may tell, and swallow
anything he may prescribe; for do they not pay him
a liberal fee, and is it not his business to understand
their physical ailments, and what to prescribe to
make them well, without their being troubled with
the matter? ...
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