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hold of it in earnest, for it is a work that should receive attention at
this time.
Ministers can and should do much to urge the circulation of the
health journals. Every member of the church should work as earnestly
for these journals as for our other periodicals. There should be no
friction between the two. Both are essential, and both should occupy
the field at the same time. Each is the complement of the other, and can
in nowise take its place. The circulation of the health journals will be a
powerful agency in preparing the people to accept those special truths
that are to fit them for the soon coming of the Son of Man.—
Counsels
on Health, 446, 447
. (See
Counsels on Health, 462, 463
.)
Promote Temperance Literature—Of all who claim to be num-
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bered among the friends of temperance, Seventh-day Adventists should
stand in the front ranks.—
Gospel Workers, 384
.
On the temperance question, take your position without wavering.
Be as firm as a rock.—
Gospel Workers, 394
.
We have a work to do along temperance lines besides that of
speaking in public. We must present our principles in pamphlets and
in our papers. We must use every possible means of arousing our
people to their duty to get into connection with those who know not
the truth. The success we have had in missionary work has been
fully proportionate to the self-denying, self-sacrificing efforts we have
made. The Lord alone knows how much we might have accomplished
if as a people we had humbled ourselves before Him and proclaimed
the temperance truth in clear, straight lines.—
Gospel Workers, 385
.
The temperance question is to receive decided support from God’s
people. Intemperance is striving for the mastery; self-indulgence is
increasing, and the publications treating on health reform are greatly
needed. Literature bearing on this point is the helping hand of the
gospel, leading souls to search the Bible for a better understanding of
the truth. The note of warning against the great evil of intemperance
should be sounded; and that this may be done, every Sabbathkeeper
should study and practice the instruction contained in our health peri-
odicals and our health books. And they should do more than this: they
should make earnest efforts to circulate these publications among their
neighbors.
The sale of our health literature will in no way hinder the sale of
publications dealing with other phases of the third angel’s message.