Beverages
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A Suggestion of Satan
750. Some think that they cannot reform, that health would be
sacrificed should they attempt to leave the use of tea, tobacco, and flesh
meats. This is the suggestion of Satan. It is these hurtful stimulants
that are surely undermining the constitution and preparing the system
for acute diseases, by impairing nature’s fine machinery and battering
down her fortifications erected against disease and premature decay....
The use of unnatural stimulants is destructive to health, and has
a benumbing influence upon the brain, making it impossible to ap-
preciate eternal things. Those who cherish these idols cannot rightly
value the salvation which Christ has wrought out for them by a life of
self-denial, continual suffering, and reproach, and by finally yielding
His own sinless life to save perishing man from death.—
Testimonies
for the Church 1:548, 549, 1867
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The Effect of Tea and Coffee upon Children—354, 360
]
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Tea and Coffee in Our Sanitariums—420, 424, 437, 438
]
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Tea, Coffee, and Flesh Foods Unnecessary—805
]
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Refusal of Tea and Coffee, etc., Proves Workers to Be Practical
Health Reformers—227, 717
]
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Results of Partaking of Tea and Coffee at Dinners and Suppers—
233
]
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Those with Cravings for Tea and Coffee to Be Enlightened—779
]
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Making a Covenant with God to Give up Tea, Coffee, etc.—41
]
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Tea and coffee not used by E. G. White—Appendix 1:18, 23
]
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Tea occasionally used by E. G. White as medicine—Appendix
1:18
]
Part 3—Cereal Substitutes for Tea and Coffee
751. Neither tea nor coffee should be served. Caramel cereal,
made a nicely as possible, should be served in the place of these
health-destroying beverages.—
Letter 200, 1902
752. Under some circumstances persons may require a third meal.
This should, however, if taken at all, be very light, and of food most
easily digested. Crackers—the English biscuit—or zwieback, and fruit,
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or cereal coffee, are the foods best suited for the evening meal.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 321, 1905