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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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spiritualist and clairvoyant physicians. So<br />

numerous are these agents of Satan becoming, and<br />

so general is the practice of seeking counsel from<br />

them, that it seems needful to utter words of<br />

warning.<br />

God has placed it in our power to obtain a<br />

knowledge of the laws of health. He has made it a<br />

duty to preserve our physical powers in the best<br />

possible c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>, that we may render to Him<br />

acceptable service. Those who refuse to improve<br />

the light and knowledge that have been mercifully<br />

placed within their reach are rejecting <strong>on</strong>e of the<br />

means which God has granted them to promote<br />

spiritual as well as physical life. They are placing<br />

themselves where they will be exposed to the<br />

delusi<strong>on</strong>s of Satan.<br />

Not a few in this Christian age and Christian<br />

nati<strong>on</strong> resort to evil spirits, rather than trust to the<br />

power of the living God. The mother watching by<br />

the sickbed of her child, exclaims, “I can do no<br />

more. Is there no physician who has power to<br />

restore my child?” She is told of the w<strong>on</strong>derful<br />

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