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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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Chapter 13<br />

Holiness of Life<br />

Lights Amid Darkness<br />

The Lord has let His light shine up<strong>on</strong> us in<br />

these last days, that the gloom and darkness which<br />

have been gathering in past generati<strong>on</strong>s because of<br />

sinful indulgences, might in some degree be<br />

dispelled, and that the train of evils which have<br />

resulted because of intemperate eating and drinking<br />

might be lessened.<br />

The Lord in wisdom designed to bring His<br />

people into a positi<strong>on</strong> where they would be<br />

separate from the world in spirit and practice, that<br />

their children might not so readily be led into<br />

idolatry and become tainted with the prevailing<br />

corrupti<strong>on</strong>s of this age. It is God’s design that<br />

believing parents and their children should stand<br />

forth as living representatives of Christ, candidates<br />

for everlasting life. All who are partakers of the<br />

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