Health Reform at the Sanitarium
Among the greatest dangers to our health institutions is the in-
fluence of physicians, superintendents, and helpers who profess to
believe the present truth, but who have never taken their stand fully
upon health reform. Some have no conscientious scruples in regard to
their eating, drinking, and dressing. How can the physician or anyone
else present the matter as it is when he himself is indulging in the use
of harmful things? God’s blessing will rest upon every effort made
to awaken an interest in health reform, for it is needed everywhere.
There must be a revival in regard to this matter, for God purposes to
accomplish much through this agency.
Drug medication, as it is generally practiced, is a curse. 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. Those who persist
in the use of tea, coffee, and flesh meats will feel the need of drugs,
but many might recover without one grain of medicine if they would
obey the laws of health. Drugs need seldom be used.
If the heart is purified through obedience to the truth, there will be
no selfish preferences, no corrupt motives; there will be no partiality.
Lovesick sentimentalism, whose blighting influence has been felt in all
our institutions, will not be developed. Strict guard should be kept that
this curse shall not poison or corrupt our health institutions.—
Health,
Philanthropic, and Medical Missionary Work, 42, 43
(1890).
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