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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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was while <strong>on</strong> this earth. We should let the afflicted<br />

understand that in Him there is healing balm for<br />

every disease, restoring power for every infirmity.<br />

The Gospel in Practice<br />

[The General C<strong>on</strong>ference Bulletin, 1901, pages<br />

202-204 (1901).] When health reform was first<br />

brought to our notice, about thirty-five years ago,<br />

the light presented to me was c<strong>on</strong>tained in this<br />

scripture: “The Spirit of the Lord God is up<strong>on</strong> Me;<br />

because the Lord hath anointed Me to preach good<br />

tidings unto the meek; He hath sent Me to bind up<br />

the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the<br />

captives, and the opening of the pris<strong>on</strong> to them that<br />

are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the<br />

Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to<br />

comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that<br />

mourn in Zi<strong>on</strong>, to give unto them beauty for ashes,<br />

the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise<br />

for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called<br />

trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that<br />

He might be glorified. And they shall build the old<br />

wastes, they shall raise up the former desolati<strong>on</strong>s,<br />

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