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same basic counsels are found in
Testimonies For The Church
2
and
Testimonies For The Church
5
.
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 1890
A volume entitled
Christian Temperance and Hygiene
Was pub-
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lished in 1890. The first portion,
Christian Temperance
, was written
by Ellen G. White and the second, on
Bible Hygiene
, was compiled
from the writings of James White. In the first 162 pages Mrs. White
presented basic health principles in more popular and expanded
form. Fifteen years later this formed the basis for the book
The Min-
istry of Healing
. Also all or parts of nine of the eighteen chapters
by Mrs. White in the 1890 book were reprinted in 1923 in
Counsels
on Health
and
Fundamentals of Christian Education
. The other
chapters were closely paralleled in
The Ministry of Healing
.
Healthful Living, 1897
In 1897, while Mrs. White was in Australia, Dr. David Paulson,
then working at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, drew together from
Mrs. White’s writings on health topics then available to him a large
number of excerpts and paragraphs, assembling them in topical order.
This collection, called
Healthful Living
, appeared eight years before
the publication of
The Ministry of Healing
. The volume, 284 pages
in length, became a valuable teaching aid, and at least three editions
were printed. However, with the appearance of
The Ministry of
Healing
in 1905,
The Paulson Compilation
was no longer published.
Mrs. White was appreciative of this compiled volume, but of course
it did not have the continuity which characterized her books.
The Ministry of Healing, 1905
Mrs. White’s well-rounded presentation on the subject of health
is made in
The Ministry of Healing
, a 516-page book which she
intended for both Adventist and non-Adventist readers, in America
and overseas. In preparing its forty-three chapters she drew heavily
upon her materials in
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene
,
Though she amplified and rewrote the material. At the time of Mrs.
White’s death in 1915, this was her only available book on health.