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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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up<strong>on</strong> eternal things. If you pursue a wr<strong>on</strong>g course<br />

and indulge in wr<strong>on</strong>g habits of eating, and thereby<br />

weaken the intellectual powers, you will not place<br />

that high estimate up<strong>on</strong> salvati<strong>on</strong> and eternal life<br />

which will inspire you to c<strong>on</strong>form your life to the<br />

life of Christ; you will not make those earnest, selfsacrificing<br />

efforts for entire c<strong>on</strong>formity to the will<br />

of God which His word requires and which are<br />

necessary to give you a moral fitness for the<br />

finishing touch of immortality.—Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for<br />

the Church 2:66 (1868).<br />

Social Purity<br />

[Testim<strong>on</strong>ies for the Church 2:450-457 (1868).]<br />

The Lord made a special covenant with ancient<br />

Israel: “Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice<br />

indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a<br />

peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all<br />

the earth is Mine: and ye shall be unto Me a<br />

kingdom of priests, and an holy nati<strong>on</strong>.” Exodus<br />

19:5, 6. He addresses His commandment-keeping<br />

people in these last days, “But ye are a chosen<br />

generati<strong>on</strong>, a royal priesthood, an holy nati<strong>on</strong>, a<br />

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