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A Call to Medical Evangelism and Health Education
to have health, then may we expect that the blessed results will follow,
and we can ask God in faith to bless our efforts for the preservation of
health. He will then answer our prayer, if His name can be glorified
thereby. But let all understand that they have a work to do. God will
not work in a miraculous manner to preserve the health of persons
who are taking a sure course to make themselves sick, by their careless
inattention to the laws of health.
Those who will gratify their appetite, and then suffer because of
their intemperance, and take drugs to relieve them, may be assured that
God will not interpose to save health and life which are so recklessly
periled. The cause has produced the effect. Many, as their last resort,
follow the directions in the Word of God, and request the prayers of
the elders of the church for their restoration to health. God does not
see fit to answer prayers offered in behalf of such, for He knows that
if they should be restored to health, they would again sacrifice it upon
the altar of unhealthy appetite.—
Medical Ministry, 13, 14
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Instruction in Diet by Evangelistic Workers
As a people we have been given the work of making known the
principles of health reform. There are some who think that the question
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of diet is not of sufficient importance to be included in their evangelistic
work. But such make a great mistake. God’s Word declares, “Whether
therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God.” The subject of temperance, in all its bearings, has an important
place in the work of salvation.—
Testimonies for the Church 9:112
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A Knowledge of Healthful Cookery
One reason why many have become discouraged in practicing
health reform is that they have not learned how to cook so that proper
food, simply prepared, would supply the place of the diet to which
they have been accustomed. They become disgusted with the poorly
prepared dishes, and next we hear them say that they have tried the
health reform and cannot live in that way. Many attempt to follow
out meager instructions in health reform and make such sad work
that it results in injury to digestion, and in discouragement to all
concerned in the attempt. You profess to be health reformers, and for