Instruction to be Given on Health Topics
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by being temperate in eating and by taking regular exercise in the open
air.... By the work of our sanitariums, suffering is to be relieved and
health restored. People are to be taught how, by carefulness in eating
and drinking, they may keep well.... Abstinence from flesh-meat will
benefit those who abstain. The diet question is a subject of living
interest.... Our sanitariums are established for a special purpose, to
teach people that we do not live to eat, but that we eat to live.
Manuscript 49, 1908
In our sanitariums, we advocate the use of simple remedies. We
discourage the use of drugs, for they poison the current of the blood.
In these institutions, sensible instruction should be given, how to eat,
how to drink, how to dress, and how to live so that the health may be
preserved.
Testimonies for the Church 7:62-63
We have come to a time when every member of the church should
take hold of medical missionary work. The world is a lazar-house
filled with victims of both physical and spiritual disease. Everywhere
people are perishing for lack of a knowledge of the truths that have
been committed to us. The members of the church are in need of an
awakening, that they may realize their responsibility to impart these
truths. Those who have been enlightened by the truth are to be light-
bearers to the world. To hide our light at this time is to make a terrible
mistake. The message to God’s people today is, “Arise, shine; for thy
light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”
On every hand we see those who have had much light and knowl-
edge deliberately choosing evil in the place of good. Making no
attempt to reform, they are growing worse and worse. But the people
of God are not to walk in darkness. They are to walk in the light, for
they are reformers.
The Ministry of Healing, 146
There is great need of instruction in regard to dietetic reform.
Wrong habits of eating and the use of unhealthful food are in no small
degree responsible for the intemperance and crime and wretchedness
that curse the world.