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Medical Ministry
the people, more can be reached than could be influenced by the
minister laboring alone....
Present before the people the need of resisting the temptation
to indulge appetite. This is where many are failing. Explain how
closely body and mind are related and show the need of keeping
both in the very best condition. The health talks which you give
in the meetings will be one of the best ways of advertising our
sanitariums....
Abstinence and Health
The minds of the suffering ones must be led to grasp the hope of
deliverance from special peril. Speak to them hopeful words, words
of courage. There are those patronizing our sanitariums whom the
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Lord will heal if they will abstain from the use of liquor and drugs
and will use simple and safe remedies to counteract disease brought
on through perverted appetite. If they will act their part to break the
spell of the enemy by firmly resisting temptation, and will surrender
themselves to the One who gave His life for sinful souls, they will
become sons and daughters of God.
All who indulge the appetite, waste the physical energies, and
weaken the moral power, will sooner or later feel the retribution that
follows the transgression of physical law.
Christ gave His life to purchase redemption for the sinner. The
world’s Redeemer knew that indulgence of appetite was bringing
physical debility and deadening the perceptive faculties so that sa-
cred and eternal things could not be discerned. He knew that self-
indulgence was perverting the moral powers, and that man’s great
need was conversion—in heart and mind and soul, from the life of
self-indulgence to one of the self-denial and self-sacrifice....
Christ’s Victory a Lesson for Us
Christ entered upon the test upon the point of appetite, and for
nearly six weeks resisted temptation in behalf of man. That long
fast in the wilderness was to be a lesson to fallen man for all time.
Christ was not overcome by the strong temptations of the enemy,
and this is encouragement for every soul who is struggling against