Exercise
Inactivity weakens the system. Action is a law of life. God made
men and women to be active and useful. Exercise increases muscle tone,
strengthens bones and improves the health of body, mind, and spirit. Nothing
can increase the strength of the young or old like proper exercise of all
the muscles in useful labor such as gardening. Next to useful labor,
the benefits of walking to body, mind, and soul cannot be more emphasized,
especially when walking is done where one can read God's book of nature.
Nature is God's physician here on earth. Outdoor exercise amid the surroundings
of purer air, glad sunshine, beautiful flowers and trees, orchards and
vineyards, is a health-giving elixir of life. Outdoor life is the only
medicine that many chronically ill need. Its influence is powerful to heal
sickness caused by fashionable lifestyles that weaken and destroy the physical,
mental, and spiritual powers.