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Medical Ministry
to be discarded, and rational methods of treatment followed. The
patients must not be given alcohol, tea, coffee, or drugs; for these
always leave traces of evil behind them. By observing these rules,
many who have been given up by the physicians may be restored to
health.
In this work the human and divine instrumentalities can coop-
erate in saving life, and God will add His blessing. Many suffering
ones not of our faith will come to our institutions to receive treat-
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ment. Those whose health has been ruined by sinful indulgence, and
who have been treated by physicians till the drugs administered have
no effect, will come; and they will be benefited.
The Lord will bless institutions conducted in accordance with
His plans. He will cooperate with every physician who faithfully
and conscientiously engages in this work. He will enter the rooms
of the sick. He will give wisdom to the nurses.—
Manuscript 162,
1897.
Seeds of Death
When you understand physiology in its truest sense, your drug
bills will be very much smaller, and finally you will cease to deal out
drugs at all. The physician who depends upon drug medication in his
practice shows that he does not understand the delicate machinery of
the human organism. He is introducing into the system a seed crop
that will never lose its destroying properties throughout the lifetime.
I tell you this because I dare not withhold it. Christ paid too much
for man’s redemption to have his body so ruthlessly treated as it has
been by drug medication.
Years ago the Lord revealed to me that institutions should be
established for treating the sick without drugs. Man is God’s prop-
erty, and the ruin that has been made of the living habitation, the
suffering caused by the seeds of death sown in the human system,
are an offense to God.—
Letter 73, 1896
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Thousands Might Recover
Thousands who are afflicted might recover their health if, instead
of depending upon the drugstore for their life, they would discard