Chapter 26—Instruction to be Given on Health
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Letter F 3, 1884
The Health Retreat was established at a great cost to treat the sick
without drugs. It should be conducted on hygienic principles. Drug
medication should be entirely discarded. Education should be given
on proper diet, dress, and exercise. Not only should our own people be
educated, but those who have not received the light upon health reform
should be taught how to live healthfully, according to God’s order ....
The principal objection with physicians and helpers at the Health
Retreat to discarding a meat diet is that they want meat, and then plead
they must have meat. Therefore, they encourage its use. But God
does not want those who come to the Health Retreat educated to live
on a flesh diet. By parlor talks and by example, educate in the other
direction. This will call for great skill in the preparation of wholesome
food. More labor will be required, but nevertheless, it must gradually
be done. Use less meat. Let those who do the cooking and those who
bear the responsibility educate their own tastes and habits of eating in
accordance with the laws of health.
Testimonies for the Church 1:490-491
I was shown that Sabbath-keepers should open a way for those
of like precious faith to be benefited without their being under the
necessity of expending their means at institutions where their faith
and religious principles are endangered, and where they can find no
sympathy or union in religious matters. God in His providence directed
the course of Dr. B. to-----, that he might there obtain an experience
he would not otherwise have gained, for he had a work for him to
do in the health reform. As a practicing physician, he had for years
been obtaining a knowledge of the human system, and God would
now have him by precept and practice learn how to apply the blessings
placed within the reach of man. He would have him become prepared
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