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Medical Ministry
Educate away from drugs. Use them less and less, and depend
more upon hygienic agencies; then nature will respond to God’s
physicians—pure air, pure water, proper exercise, a clear conscience.
Many might recover without one grain of medicine, if they would
live out the laws of health. Drugs need seldom be used. It will require
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earnest, patient, protracted effort to establish the work and to carry it
forward upon hygienic principles. But let fervent prayer and faith be
combined with your efforts, and you will succeed. By this work you
will be teaching the patients, and others also, how to take care of
themselves when sick, without resorting to the use of drugs.—
Letter
6a, 1890
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The Science of Self-Denial
Should all the sick be healed by prayer, very few would improve
their opportunities to become acquainted with right ways of eating,
drinking, and dressing. Those connected with our sanitariums should
realize the duty resting upon them to give the patients an education
in the principles of healthful living.
The sick have their lesson to learn. They must be denied those
preparations of food that would retard or prevent their recovery to
health. They must learn the science of self-denial, eating simple food
prepared in a simple way. They should live much in the sunlight,
which should find its way to every room of the building. Lectures on
health topics should be given. These lectures will open the blinded
understanding, and truths never before thought of will be fastened
on the mind.—
Letter 63, 1905
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Counsel to a Sanitarium Physician
In the night season I was talking with you. I had some things to
say to you on the diet question. I was talking freely with you, telling
you that you would have to make changes in your ideas in regard
to the diet to be given those who come to the sanitarium from the
world. These people have lived improperly, on rich food. They are
suffering as a result of indulgence of appetite.
A reform in their habits of eating and drinking is needed. But
this reform cannot be made all at once. The change must be made