Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

Reforms Called For
In the light given me so long ago, I was shown
that intemperance would prevail in the world to an
alarming extent and that every one of the people of
God must take an elevated stand in regard to
reformation in habits and practices. At that time I
was eating meat two or three times a day, and I was
fainting away two or three times a day. The Lord
presented a general plan before me. I was shown
that God would give to His commandment-keeping
people a reform diet, and that as they received this,
their disease and suffering would be greatly
lessened. I was shown that this work would
progress.
A Sanitarium Needed
Then, in after years, the light was given that we
should have a sanitarium, a health institution,
which was to be established right among us. This
was the means God was to use in bringing His
people to a right understanding in regard to health
reform. It was also to be the means by which we
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