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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
Teach Skillfully
Wherever the truth is carried, the people should be given instruction
in regard to the preparation of healthful foods. God desires that in
every place the people should be taught by skillful teachers how to
utilize wisely the products that they can raise or readily obtain in
their section of the country. Thus the poor, as well as those in better
circumstances, can be taught to live healthfully.
All the way along from the beginning, we have found it necessary
to educate, educate, educate. God desires us to continue to educate the
people. We are not to neglect this work because of the effect we may
fear it will have on the sale of goods manufactured in our health food
factories. This is not the most important matter. Our work is to show
the people how they can obtain and prepare wholesome food, how they
can co-operate with God in restoring in themselves His image.—
Letter
135, 1902
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A Continual Reform Essential
Reform, continual reform, must be kept before the people, and
by our example we must enforce our teachings. True religion and
the laws of health go hand in hand. It is impossible to work for the
salvation of men and women without presenting to them the need of
breaking away from sinful gratifications, which destroy the health,
debase the soul, and prevent divine truth from impressing the mind.
Men and women must be taught to take a careful review of every habit
and every practice, and at once put away those things that cause an
unhealthy condition of the body, and thus cast a dark shadow over the
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mind.-
Counsels on Health, 445
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Those who act as teachers are to be intelligent in regard to disease
and its causes, understanding that every action of the human agent
should be in perfect harmony with the laws of life. The light God has
given on health reform is for our salvation and the salvation of the
world. Men and women should be informed in regard to the human
habitation, fitted up by our Creator as His dwelling place, and over
which He desires us to be faithful stewards. “For ye are the temple
of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk