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Medical Ministry
We are health reformers. Physicians should have wisdom and
experience, and be thorough health reformers. Then they will be
constantly educating by precept and example their patients from
drugs. For they well know that the use of drugs may produce for
the time being favorable results, but will implant in the system that
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which will cause great difficulties hereafter, which they may never
recover from during their lifetime. Nature must have a chance to do
her work. Obstructions must be removed and opportunity given her
to exert her healing forces, which she will surely do, if every abuse
is removed from her and she has a fair chance.
Confidence in Nature’s Remedies to be Cultivated
The sick should be educated to have confidence in nature’s great
blessings which God has provided; and the most effective remedies
for disease are pure soft water, the blessed God-given sunshine
coming into the rooms of the invalids, living outdoors as much as
possible, having healthful exercise, eating and drinking foods that
are prepared in the most healthful manner....
There are many, many afflicted in our world with tobacco poi-
son.... The physician, if he is not a novice, can trace the effects back
to the true cause, but he dares not forbid its use, because he indulges
in it himself. Some will in an undecided, halfway manner advise
the tobacco users to take less of this narcotic; but they do not say
to them, This habit is killing you. They prescribe drugs to cure a
disease which is the result of indulging unnatural appetites, and two
evils are produced in the place of removing one.
Thousands need to be educated patiently, kindly, tenderly, but
decidedly, that nine tenths of their complaints are created by their
own course of action....
Self-indulgence a Cause of Disease
Some have not the moral courage to keep right on in the fear
of the Lord. There is even among those who have intelligence in
regard to the laws of life and health, a constant selfish indulgence
in those things which are injurious to both soul and body. There is
intemperance in eating and in the many varieties of food taken at