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will now be more difficult than it would have been a few years ago.
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But if we take up the work in the name of the Lord, barriers will be
broken down, and decided victories will be ours.
In this work physicians and gospel ministers are needed. We must
press our petitions to the Lord, and do our best, pressing forward with
all the energy possible to make an opening in the large cities. Had we
in the past worked after the Lord’s plans, many lights would be shining
brightly that are going out.—
Medical Ministry, 301, 302
(1909).
Health and Temperance Messages to Masses—There is a great
work to be done in bringing the principles of health reform to the
notice of the people. Public meetings should be held to introduce the
subject, and schools should be held in which those who are interested
can be told more particularly about our health foods and of how a
wholesome, nourishing, appetizing diet can be provided without the
use of meat, tea, or coffee....
Press home the temperance question with all the force of the Holy
Spirit’s unction. Show the need of total abstinence from all intoxicating
liquor. Show the terrible harm that is wrought in the human system
by the use of tobacco and alcohol. Explain your methods of giving
treatment. Let the talks given be such as will enlighten your hearers.
God has mercy on the unrighteous. This service will be an opportunity
to tell what health reform really is.—
Letter 343, 1904
.
Sanitariums Near Important Cities—The Lord has shown me
that there should be sanitariums near many important cities.... Suitable
places must be provided to which we can bring the sick and suffering
away from the cities, who know nothing of our people, and scarcely
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anything of Bible truth. Every effort possible is to be made to show the
sick that disease may be cured by rational methods of treatment, with-
out having recourse to injurious drugs. Let the sick be separated from
harmful surroundings and associations, and placed in our sanitariums,
where they can receive treatment from Christian nurses and physicians,
and thus they become acquainted with the Word of God.—
Letter 63,
1905
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Planting Bases for the Message—It is the Lord’s desire that re-
newed efforts shall be put forth in many places, and small plants be
established. A work is to be done that is to open the way for the
advancement of the truth, and that will increase the faith of souls....